Bug 1634161 (CVE-2018-0503) - CVE-2018-0503 mediawiki: $wgRateLimits (rate limit / ping limiter) entry for 'user' overrides that for 'newbie'
Summary: CVE-2018-0503 mediawiki: $wgRateLimits (rate limit / ping limiter) entry for ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-0503
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1634162 1710098 1734829 1734830 1742212 1742213
Blocks: 1634171
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-09-28 20:27 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2020-12-17 07:59 UTC (History)
18 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mediawiki 1.31.1, mediawiki 1.30.1, mediawiki 1.29.3, mediawiki 1.27.5
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-10-18 06:51:19 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:3142 0 None None None 2019-10-18 01:31:03 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:3238 0 None None None 2019-10-29 16:09:16 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:3813 0 None None None 2019-11-07 16:54:01 UTC

Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-28 20:27:04 UTC 
As reported:

Contrary to the documentation, $wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides that for 'newbie'.

For example, with the following configuration, newly registered accounts are able to edit 10 pages per hour instead of 5:

$wgRateLimits[ 'edit' ] = [
  'user' => [ 10, 60*60 ],
  'newbie' => [ 5, 60*60 ],
];

This seems to be the opposite of what documentation in DefaultSettings.php says:

'newbie' => [ x, y ], // each new autoconfirmed accounts; overrides 'user'

(although that should probably be 'non-autoconfirmed'…).

Upstream bug:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169545

References:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2018-September/000223.html
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-28 20:28:15 UTC 
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1634162]
Comment 3 Dave Baker 2019-05-14 21:02:51 UTC 
Updating affected products; mediawiki-123 is the container name, mediawiki123 is the package name.
Comment 5 Dave Baker 2019-07-31 14:50:14 UTC 
I'm not sure why I didn't file bugs against 3.9 and 3.10 earlier.  I confirmed the latest tagged containers are still affected and am filing those trackers not.

(3.6 and 3.7 went EOL, so those are just being marked as such)
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2019-10-18 01:31:01 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11

Via RHSA-2019:3142 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3142
Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-10-18 06:51:19 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-0503
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2019-10-29 16:09:14 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10

Via RHSA-2019:3238 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3238
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-07 16:54:00 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9

Via RHSA-2019:3813 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3813
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