CVE-2020-35480

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.1. Missing users (accounts that don't exist) and hidden users (accounts that have been explicitly hidden due to being abusive, or similar) that the viewer cannot see are handled differently, exposing sensitive information about the hidden status to unprivileged viewers. This exists on various code paths.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-35480

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202101-22

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.35.1-1
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.35.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.35.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.35.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.35.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.35.1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.