Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-25827 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251661
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251661