CVE-2015-8008 - Improper Access Control

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The OAuth extension for MediaWiki improperly negotiates a new client token only over Special:OAuth/initiate, which allows attackers to bypass intended IP address access restrictions by making an API request with an existing token.

The OAuth extension for MediaWiki improperly negotiates a new client token only over Special:OAuth/initiate, which allows attackers to bypass intended IP address access restrictions by making an API request with an existing token.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-12-29 22:29:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2018-01-11 16:03:00

Affected Software

Mediawiki

Fedora 21

21

Fedora 22

22

Fedora Project Fedora 23

23

References

FEDORA-2015-97fe05f788

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

FEDORA-2015-ec6d598d3d

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

FEDORA-2015-24fe8b66c9

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20151029 Re: CVE Request: MediaWiki 1.25.3, 1.24.4 and 1.23.11

Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

77379

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

1034028

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273353

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

[MediaWiki-announce] 20151016 Extension Security Release: OAuth, Echo, PageTriage

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103022

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

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