# 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-03-12 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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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## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229731
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/I9cc5fb2c08c78bbd797a5fc6d89f4577c8cc118b

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