CVE-2020-25827: OATHAuth extension in MediaWiki is not implementing rate limit
(updated )
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.
References
- github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/mediawiki/core/CVE-2020-25827.yaml
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqvj-fc2x-99q6
- github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25827
- phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251661
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