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Message-ID: <1395998626.7188.3.camel@neutron.trustmatta.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:23:46 +0000
From: Florent Daigniere <florent.daigniere@...stmatta.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: MediaWiki 1.22.5 login csrf
On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 18:37 -0700, Chris Steipp wrote:
> Hi, we just patched a login CSRF in MediaWiki today. An attacker could
> login a victim as the attacker. Can we get a cve assigned for this?
>
> Patch:
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/121517/1/includes/specials/SpecialChangePassword.php
>
> Release announcement:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-March/000145.html
>
> Wikimedia bug:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62497
That looks like a session-fixation bug to me; not a CSRF... and
therefore it's the wrong control: the session-id should be "renewed",
that's all.
Florent
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