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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-10534

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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1 Nov 2026, 06:42 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-10534

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Mar 2020, 23:15 UTC

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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  "id": "080d3f441d51ef5bb65ca9f1e9e31609b25edd6d0a1998474548541cf4365582",
  "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",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-10534",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-mediawiki-2020-10534",
        "CVE-2020-10534"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "29977ebe4c05cab4cac46fd1a8459e27f50fb153"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.34.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.34.0",
            "1.34.0-rc.1",
            "1.34.0-rc.0",
            "test-hashar-for-ci",
            "1.6.0",
            "1.5.0beta4",
            "1.5.0beta3",
            "1.5.0beta2",
            "1.5.0beta1",
            "1.5.0alpha2",
            "1.5.0alpha1",
            "1.3.0beta1",
            "1.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-10534.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:43.253190851Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229731",
        "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/I9cc5fb2c08c78bbd797a5fc6d89f4577c8cc118b"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-10534",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "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"
}