CVE-2020-5302
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.90%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.90% probability · 58th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-284, CWE-269
- Affected
- mh-wikibot project/mh-wikibot
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/compare/2eac90d...1a62da1
- https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/security/advisories/GHSA-7hf3-wvp8-34r9Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/compare/2eac90d...1a62da1
- https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/security/advisories/GHSA-7hf3-wvp8-34r9Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.