wikimedia/mediawiki · Security
MediaWiki Incorrect Access Control vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-6vfg-8ppv-h5hg
- CVE ID
- CVE-2019-12467
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Description
MediaWiki through 1.32.1 has Incorrect Access Control (issue 1 of 3). A spammer can use Special:ChangeEmail to send out spam with no rate limiting or ability to block them. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6.
CWEs
- CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12467 ↗
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092152.html ↗
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209794 ↗
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/12 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4460 ↗
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/mediawiki/core/CVE-2019-12467.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6vfg-8ppv-h5hg ↗