CVE-2020-25827

mediawiki: using OATHAuth on a farm/cluster (such as via CentralAuth), rate limiting of OATH tokens is only done on a single site level

Published Sep 27, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2379-1 mediawiki security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2379-2 mediawiki regression update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2379-3 mediawiki regression update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4767-1 mediawiki security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-5220 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-rqvj-fc2x-99q6 OATHAuth extension in MediaWiki is not implementing rate limit
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 3:40 PM
Reserved
Sep 23, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 27, 2020, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:07 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 27, 2020, 12:00 AM