Vulnerability · Published Apr 7, 2020 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2020-5302unprivileged user can access priviledged action in MH-WikiBot

High 8.2

In plain English

A high-severity improper access control in MH-WikiBot from examknow. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.2High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 40.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

MH-WikiBot (an IRC Bot for interacting with the Miraheze API), had a bug that allowed any unprivileged user to access the steward commands on the IRC interface by impersonating the Nickname used by a privileged user as no check was made to see if they were logged in. The issue has been fixed in commit 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
examknow MH-WikiBot < commit 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1

Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

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