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MediaWiki: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts (CVE-2020-25827)

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MediaWiki: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts (CVE-2020-25827)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/27/2020
Created
10/09/2020
Added
10/08/2020
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in the OATHAuth extension in MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. For Wikis using OATHAuth on a farm/cluster (such as via CentralAuth), rate limiting of OATH tokens is only done on a single site level. Thus, multiple requests can be made across many wikis/sites concurrently.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_31_10
  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_34_4

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