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CVE-2018-0503

$wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides 'newbie'

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 1.5%
exploitation probability
1.5%top 28% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5 contains a flaw where contrary to the documentation, $wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides that for 'newbie'.
Affected products
mediawiki · mediawiki
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3142https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3238https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3813https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-September/090849.htmlhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169545https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4301http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041695