CVE-2012-4380

HIGH

MediaWiki < 1.18.5 and 1.19.x < 1.19.2 - GlobalBlocking Extension IP Address Blocking Bypass

Title source: llm

Description

MediaWiki before 1.18.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.2 allows remote attackers to bypass GlobalBlocking extension IP address blocking and create an account via unspecified vectors.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6

Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.html

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853440

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41824

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0055

EPSS Percentile 68.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-284

Status published

Products (3)

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.0

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.1

mediawiki/mediawiki < 1.18.4

Published Oct 19, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026