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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2020-5302 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  6.5 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
Base Score:  8.2 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/compare/2eac90d...1a62da1
https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/compare/2eac90d...1a62da1
https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/security/advisories/GHSA-7hf3-wvp8-34r9 Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/security/advisories/GHSA-7hf3-wvp8-34r9 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-284 Improper Access Control GitHub, Inc.  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:mh-wikibot_project:mh-wikibot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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2020-04-06

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-5302
NVD Published Date:
04/07/2020
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
GitHub, Inc.