CVE-2020-25827
mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.017 · 77 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
An issue was discovered in the OATHAuth extension in MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. 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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (15)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-rqvj-fc2x-99q6OATHAuth extension in MediaWiki is not implementing rate limit2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
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.
- BIT-mediawiki-2020-258272024-03-06vendor · osvUS
An issue was discovered in the OATHAuth extension in MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. 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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sources
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references (17)
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- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/cnnvd
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25827cnnvd
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251661cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/MediaWiki-multiple-vulnerabilities-33427cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2020.3319/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2020.3338/cnnvd
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