CVE-2014-2243

Name	CVE-2014-2243
Description	includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 terminates validation of a user token upon encountering the first incorrect character, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force attack that relies on timing differences in responses to incorrect token guesses.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub 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	1:1.27.7-1~deb9u3	fixed
	stretch (security)	1:1.27.7-1+deb9u11	fixed
	buster, buster (security)	1:1.31.16-1+deb10u2	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	1:1.35.4-1+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm, sid	1:1.35.6-1	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)	1:1.19.12+dfsg-1

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61346
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/I2a9e89120f7092015495e638c6fa9f67adc9b84f,n,z