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CVE-2012-5391

Session fixation vulnerability in Special:UserLogin in MediaWiki before 1.18.6, 1.19.x before 1.19.3, and 1.20.x before

Session fixation vulnerability in Special:UserLogin in MediaWiki before 1.18.6, 1.19.x before 1.19.3, and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the session_id.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 EPSS 0.00758
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  • No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence
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Affected Products & Versions

2
mediawiki<= 1.18.5
mediawikiall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

6.8
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD02 Jun 2014 · 03:55 PM
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References & Sources

6
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098975.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100843.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100845.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.htmlVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40995
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83008
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