| Name | CVE-2011-1766 |
| Description | includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.16.5, when wgBlockDisablesLogin is enabled, does not clear certain cached data after verification of an auth token fails, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by creating crafted wikiUserID and wikiUserName cookies, or by leveraging an unattended workstation. |
| 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) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:1.35.13-1+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 1:1.39.7-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.39.8-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| mediawiki | source | lenny | (not affected) | | | |
| mediawiki | source | squeeze | (not affected) | | | |
| mediawiki | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- mediawiki <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present, planned next upload will skip it)
[lenny] - mediawiki <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present, introduced in 1.16.0)
[squeeze] - mediawiki <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present, introduced in 1.16.0)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28534