CVE-2025-6597 (GCVE-0-2025-6597)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-02 22:57 – Updated: 2026-03-03 15:39
VLAI
Title
MediaWiki should not consider autocreation as login for the purposes of security reauthentication
Summary
Vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/auth/AuthManager.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: from * before 1.39.13, 1.42.7, 1.43.2, 1.44.0.
Severity
0 (None)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki Affected: * , < 1.39.13, 1.42.7, 1.43.2, 1.44.0 (semver)
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