BotPasswords can bypass CentralAuth's account lock

Description

Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5 contains a flaw where BotPasswords can bypass CentralAuth's account lock

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.0% · top 20% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• Authentication bypass
• CWE-287 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-287

Affected products

• mediawiki · mediawiki

  • affected before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Packagistmediawiki/coreGHSA-5c6w-f4w2-2grp (opens in a new tab)

References (7)

• [wikitech-l] 20180920 Security release: 1.27.5 / 1.29.3 / 1.30.1 / 1.31.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194605 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1041695 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• DSA-4301 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3142 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3238 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3813 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-5c6w-f4w2-2grp (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 16 Sept 2024, 18:48 UTC.