Vulnerability CVE-2020-5302


Published: 2020-04-07

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.

Type:

CWE-269

(Improper Privilege Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Mh-wikibot project -> Mh-wikibot 

 References:
https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/compare/2eac90d...1a62da1
https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/security/advisories/GHSA-7hf3-wvp8-34r9

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