HIGH7.5
GHSA-rqvj-fc2x-99q6
OATHAuth extension in MediaWiki is not implementing rate limit
Quick fix
GHSA-rqvj-fc2x-99q6 — mediawiki/core: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
composer require mediawiki/core:^1.31.9Details
An issue was discovered in the OATHAuth extension in MediaWiki before 1.31.9 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.3. 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.
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Affected packages
Packagist/mediawiki/core
Introduced in:
1.31.0Fixed in: 1.31.9Fix
composer require mediawiki/core:^1.31.9Packagist/mediawiki/core
Introduced in:
1.32.0Fixed in: 1.34.3Fix
composer require mediawiki/core:^1.34.3References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25827[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/mediawiki/core/CVE-2020-25827.yaml[WEB]
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki[PACKAGE]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6[WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6[WEB]
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html[WEB]
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html[WEB]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251661[WEB]