🛡️ CVE-2018-0505 — core

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Mediawiki BotPassword can bypass CentralAuth's account lock

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

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2018-0505 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2018-0505 is recorded against 1 package.

  • mediawiki/core (from 1.31.0 up to 1.31.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 19 May 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
lists.wikimedia.org (Web)
phabricator.wikimedia.org (Web)
www.debian.org (Web)
www.securitytracker.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-05-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mediawiki/core 1.31.0 1.31.1

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