CVE-2025-6926 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Improper Authentication vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - CentralAuth Extension allows : Bypass Authentication.This issue affects Mediawiki - CentralAuth Extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

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References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1165117
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389010

History

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Improper Authentication vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - CentralAuth Extension allows : Bypass Authentication.This issue affects Mediawiki - CentralAuth Extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.
Title		Security Authentication Bypass in CentralAuth
Weaknesses		CWE-287
References		https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1165117 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389010

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published: 2025-07-03T16:23:56.503Z

Updated: 2025-07-03T17:41:44.046Z

Reserved: 2025-06-30T14:28:12.256Z

Link: CVE-2025-6926

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-03T17:41:34.190Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-07-03T17:15:41.100

Modified: 2025-07-03T18:15:22.797

Link: CVE-2025-6926

Redhat

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