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CVE-2018-0503

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Improper privilege management
4.3CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

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'.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-September/090849.html ↗