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Advisory record · GHSA-5vj8-g3qg-4qh6

X-Forwarded-For header allows brute-forcing autoblocked IP addresses

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.012 · 68th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 31 Mar 2023, 21:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
mediawiki/corePackagist>=1.39.0, <1.39.3 || >=1.38.0, <1.38.6 || <1.35.101.39.3, 1.38.6, 1.35.10
Identifiers
GHSA-5vj8-g3qg-4qh6 · BIT-mediawiki-2023-29141 · CVE-2023-29141 · PKSA-sywz-vkhh-67ff
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-444
Tags
Published
31 Mar 2023
Updated
18 Feb 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.012, the 68th percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 31 Mar 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

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