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 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-September/090849.htmlPatch
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169545Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041695Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3142
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3238
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3813
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4301Advisory