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UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2243 (CVE-2014-2243)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2014-03-02 04:57 – Updated: 2025-07-16 04:50 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-07-18

Details

includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 terminates validation of a user token upon encountering the first incorrect character, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force attack that relies on timing differences in responses to incorrect token guesses.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2243	REPORT
	http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-an…	REPORT
	https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/I2a9e89120f709…	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61346	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071136	REPORT
	http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2	REPORT
	http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2243	REPORT

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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
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CVE-2014-2243 (GCVE-0-2014-2243)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-02 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:06

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61346	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-an…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071136	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/I2a9e89120f709…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2014-02-28 00:00

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