CVE-2015-8624

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…

published March 23, 2017

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00746 · 54.1th percentile
Published
2017-03-23T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 MAR 20:00Z
    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…
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