CVE-2015-8624 | BDVDB-2026-83078 Detail

Description#

The User::matchEditToken function in includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 does not perform token comparison in constant time before determining if a debugging message should be logged, which allows remote attackers to guess the edit token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8623.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119309
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-03-23Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.