Critical
Security advisory
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.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-10534
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2020-10534
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-10534",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2020-10534",
"summary": "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.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-10534",
"products": [],
"severity": "critical",
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"aliases": [
"BIT-mediawiki-2020-10534",
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
],
"affected": [
{
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"type": "GIT",
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}
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},
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}
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"1.5.0beta1",
"1.5.0alpha2",
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"database_specific": {
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:43.253190851Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229731",
"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/I9cc5fb2c08c78bbd797a5fc6d89f4577c8cc118b"
],
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 435587,
"published_at": "2020-03-12T23:15:12.233+00:00"
}