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CVE-2025-6597 json

MediaWiki should not consider autocreation as login for the purposes of security reauthentication

published 2026-02-02 9 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-206627

cvss
0.0
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/auth/AuthManager.Php.

This issue affects MediaWiki: from * before 1.39.13, 1.42.7, 1.43.2, 1.44.0.

Patch / fix

  • Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki 1.39.13, 1.42.7, 1.43.2, 1.44.0
  • mediawiki Debian 12 1:1.39.13-1~deb12u1
  • mediawiki Debian 14, Debian 13 1:1.43.3+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-6597

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-6597 updated cvss 0.0

MediaWiki: MediaWiki: Vulnerability in authentication management

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 0.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 0.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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