BIT-mediawiki-2021-31552

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Import Source
https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/mediawiki/BIT-mediawiki-2021-31552.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/BIT-mediawiki-2021-31552
Aliases
Published
2024-03-06T11:12:03.916Z
Modified
2025-04-03T14:40:37.652Z
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in the AbuseFilter extension for MediaWiki through 1.35.2. It incorrectly executed certain rules related to blocking accounts after account creation. Such rules would allow for user accounts to be created while blocking only the IP address used to create an account (and not the user account itself). Such rules could also be used by a nefarious, unprivileged user to catalog and enumerate any number of IP addresses related to these account creations.

Database specific
{
    "cpes": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
}
References

Affected packages

Bitnami / mediawiki

Package

Name
mediawiki
Purl
pkg:bitnami/mediawiki

Severity

  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.35.3