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CVE-2015-8623
Published: Mar 23, 2017
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The User::matchEditToken function in includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.12 and 1.24.x before 1.24.5 does not perform token comparison in constant time before returning, which allows remote attackers to guess the edit token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8624.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[MediaWiki-announce] 20151221 [MediaWiki-announce] Security Release: 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5 and 1.23.12
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[oss-security] 20151223 Re: CVE requests for MediaWiki 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5 and 1.23.12
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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119309
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[oss-security] 20151221 CVE requests for MediaWiki 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5 and 1.23.12
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https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156336/5/includes/User.php
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