Bug 1634166 – CVE-2018-0505 mediawiki: BotPassword can bypass CentralAuth's account lock

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Bug 1634166 - (CVE-2018-0505) CVE-2018-0505 mediawiki: BotPassword can bypass CentralAuth's account lock

Summary:	CVE-2018-0505 mediawiki: BotPassword can bypass CentralAuth's account lock

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-0505

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1634167
Blocks:	1634171
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Reported:	2018-09-28 16:37 EDT by Pedro Sampaio
Modified:	2018-09-28 16:49 EDT (History)
CC List:	12 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	mediawiki 1.31.1, mediawiki 1.30.1, mediawiki 1.29.3, mediawiki 1.27.5
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-28 16:37:39 EDT

As reported:

A flaw was found in mediawiki where a unpriviliged login may bypass account lock.

Upstream bug:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194605

References:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2018-September/000223.html

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-28 16:38:14 EDT

Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1634167]

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