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CVE-2020-25827 (GCVE-0-2020-25827)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-27 20:43 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:40
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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References
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