| Name | CVE-2015-8623 |
| Description | The User::matchEditToken function in includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.12 and 1.24.x before 1.24.5 does not perform token comparison in constant time before returning, which allows remote attackers to guess the edit token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8624. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mediawiki (PTS) | stretch (security) | 1:1.27.7-1+deb9u11 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:1.27.7-1+deb9u13 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:1.31.16-1+deb10u8 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:1.35.13-1+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:1.35.13-1+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 1:1.39.10-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.39.10-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| mediawiki | source | squeeze | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| mediawiki | source | (unstable) | 1:1.25.5-1 | low | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - mediawiki <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - mediawiki <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156336/5/includes/User.php