Published: 09/09/2012 Updated: 29/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

MediaWiki 1.17.x prior to 1.17.3 and 1.18.x prior to 1.18.2 uses weak random numbers for password reset tokens, which makes it easier for remote malicious users to change the passwords of arbitrary users.

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mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.2
mediawiki mediawiki 1.17
mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.0
mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.1
mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.0
mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.1
mediawiki mediawiki 1.18

Debian Bug report logs - #666269 mediawiki: security release CVE-2012-1578/CVE-2012-1579/CVE-2012-1580/CVE-2012-1581/CVE-2012-1582 Package: mediawiki; Maintainer for mediawiki is Kunal Mehta <legoktm@debianorg>; Source for mediawiki is src:mediawiki (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Henri Salo <henri@nervfi> Date: ...

CWE-264 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35078 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html http://secunia.com/advisories/48504 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78910 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666269 https://nvd.nist.gov

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