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CVE-2015-2940

Date: April 13, 2015

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user information via unspecified vectors.

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2940
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2940
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-2940

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CWE-352

CVSS v3

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV):
Attack Complexity (AC):
Privileges Required (PR):
User Interaction (UI):
Scope (S):
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV):
Access Complexity (AC):
Authentication (AU):
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH
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