CVE-2018-0505
BotPasswords can bypass CentralAuth's account lock
02 Description
BotPasswords can bypass CentralAuth's account lock
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.97% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 80.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-10-04 20:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 18:48Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-11-27
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- a14ec2aa2903f13cc4eb73a2f26143950a42b4f1502b27cd293efe33d07b15ed
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.wikimedia.org[wikitech-l] 20180920 Security release: 1.27.5 / 1.29.3 / 1.30.1 / 1.31.1https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-September/090849.html
- phabricator.wikimedia.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194605
- www.securitytracker.com1041695http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041695
- www.debian.orgDSA-4301https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4301
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:3142https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3142
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:3238https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3238
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:3813https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3813
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- mediawiki Fixed in 1.31.1-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.31.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.31.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.31.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- mediawiki No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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