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2020-03-12
In the GlobalBlocking extension before 2020-03-10 for MediaWiki through 1.34.0, an issue related to IP range evaluation resulted in blocked users re-gaining escalated privileges. This is related to the case in which an IP address is contained in two ranges, one of which is locally disabled.
| Products | Mediawiki |
| Type | Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) |
| First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
| Links |
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229731
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/I9cc5fb2c08c78bbd797a5fc6d89f4577c8cc118b |