Security advisory

{
  "id": "13125788f84dda63fb65e3cfab545b7553d4605c28d1e2406a7f4202d1ccc981",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-22912",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2023-22912",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. CheckUser TokenManager insecurely uses AES-CTR encryption with a repeated (aka re-used) nonce, allowing an adversary to decrypt.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-22912",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-22912",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-mediawiki-2023-22912",
        "CVE-2023-22912"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "4a804b4950cd62bfbd1991471308e27793ab2a27"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "bc542ec6d8573dfb906b468901799e0017875f1e"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "1b1d48cd6fa6d7aed8f8c3fc3e729ba0078152e7"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "c95fc4786beba034fa643062b98a60ccbde831fd"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "c95fc4786beba034fa643062b98a60ccbde831fd"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.35.9"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.36.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.38.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.39.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.39.0-NA"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.39.0-NA"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.39.0-NA",
            "1.39.0",
            "1.38.4",
            "1.38.3",
            "1.35.8",
            "1.35.7",
            "1.38.2",
            "1.38.1",
            "1.38.0",
            "1.38.0-rc.1",
            "1.38.0-rc.0",
            "1.35.6",
            "1.35.5",
            "1.35.4",
            "1.35.3",
            "1.35.2",
            "1.35.1",
            "1.35.0",
            "1.35.0-rc.3",
            "1.35.0-rc.2",
            "1.35.0-rc.1",
            "1.35.0-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-2023-22912.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:46.208248054Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315123",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/22xxx/CVE-2023-22912.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22912"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/22xxx/CVE-2023-22912.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-22912",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 514386,
  "published_at": "2023-01-20T00:00:00+00:00"
}