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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2018-0503: mediawiki: $wgRateLimits (rate limit / ping limiter) entry for 'user' overrides that for 'newbie'

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2018-0503: mediawiki: $wgRateLimits (rate limit / ping limiter) entry for 'user' overrides that for 'newbie'

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
10/04/2018
Created
10/22/2019
Added
10/21/2019
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5 contains a flaw where contrary to the documentation, $wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides that for 'newbie'.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-mediawiki
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-mediawiki123

References

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