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SCA: security update for mediawiki/core (GHSA-5c6w-f4w2-2grp)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431764

Description

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

 - Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5 contains a flaw where BotPasswords can bypass
 CentralAuth's account lock (CVE-2018-0505)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5c6w-f4w2-2grp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 431764

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0505

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0505

cwe: CWE-287