National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2787

Overview

api.php in MediaWiki before 1.15.5 does not prevent use of public caching headers for private data, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information by retrieving documents from an HTTP proxy cache that has been used by a victim.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620226

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620226

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620224

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620224

External Source: BID

Name: 42019

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42019

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=69776

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=69776

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100729 Re: CVE request: mediawiki

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/29/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [mediawiki-announce] 20100728 MediaWiki security release: 1.16.0 and 1.15.5

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-July/000092.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-5495

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24565

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24565

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-5807

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-5812

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-5848

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html