CVE-2025-62668 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments Extension allows Resource Leak Exposure.This issue affects Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments Extension: from master before 1.39.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact Low

Subsequent System Integrity Impact Low

Subsequent System Availability Impact Low

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Mediawiki	Mediawiki

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References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I29a18dbbaf7e2ce2a713233dbc6880032fec3628
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402600

History

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Mediawiki Mediawiki mediawiki
Vendors & Products		Mediawiki Mediawiki mediawiki

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments Extension allows Resource Leak Exposure.This issue affects Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments Extension: from master before 1.39.
Title		Insufficient permission checks in action=growthsetmentor
Weaknesses		CWE-276
References		https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I29a18dbbaf7e2ce2a713233dbc6880032fec3628 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402600
Metrics		cvssV4_0 `{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published: 2025-10-18T04:39:28.390Z

Updated: 2025-10-20T16:27:08.378Z

Reserved: 2025-10-18T04:03:51.880Z

Link: CVE-2025-62668

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-20T16:27:02.873Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-18T05:15:34.447

Modified: 2025-10-21T19:31:25.450

Link: CVE-2025-62668

Redhat

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