wikimedia/mediawiki · Security
Wikimedia MediaWiki Incorrect Access Control vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-wrhx-3pxr-6vgg
- CVE ID
- CVE-2019-12468
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability was found in Wikimedia MediaWiki 1.27.0 through 1.32.1. Directly POSTing to Special:ChangeEmail would allow for bypassing re-authentication, allowing for potential account takeover.
CWEs
- CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12468 ↗
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092152.html ↗
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197279 ↗
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/12 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4460 ↗
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/mediawiki/core/CVE-2019-12468.yaml ↗
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wrhx-3pxr-6vgg ↗