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SCA: security update for mediawiki/core (GHSA-rqvj-fc2x-99q6)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433651

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2020-25827)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqvj-fc2x-99q6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433651

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25827

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25827

cwe: CWE-307