| Name | CVE-2015-2940 |
| Description | Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user information via unspecified vectors. |
| 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 | squeeze | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| mediawiki | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| mediawiki | source | (unstable) | 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3 | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - mediawiki <end-of-life> (Not supported in Wheezy LTS)
[squeeze] - mediawiki <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1