CVE-2012-5395 Auth bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5395?

CVE-2012-5395 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki, published on 2 Jun 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Session fixation vulnerability in the CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.18.6, 1.19.x before 1.19.3, and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the centralauth_Session cookie.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5395?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mediawiki Mediawiki.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5395?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5395 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2012-5395 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5395 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-c42w-vg6v-vvqm.