What is CVE-2013-4572?

CVE-2013-4572 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Session Fixation. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-02-06.

How severe is CVE-2013-4572?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Mediawiki

CVE-2013-4572

The CentralNotice extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 sets the Cache-Control header to cache session cookies when a user is autocreated, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as the created user.

EPSS: 0.021 (80.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Mediawiki
Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki — versions 1.20.x before 1.20.8, 1.21.x before 1.21.3, before 1.19.9
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 18, 19

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-384 — Session Fixation

References

secalert@redhat.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
secalert@redhat.com (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2013-4572?: CVE-2013-4572 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Session Fixation. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-02-06.
How severe is CVE-2013-4572?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.