Description

A denial-of-service issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. When many files exist, requesting Special:NewFiles with actor as a condition can result in a very long running query.

Related CPE's

a

mediawiki

mediawiki

3

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debian

debian_linux

2

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297731

ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246

Third Party Advisory

Weaknesses

[email protected]

Primary
CWE-763

CVSS impact metrics

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.5 · High

  • CVSS V3.1

  • CVSS V3.0

  • CVSS V2.0

Information

Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Analyzed

Published

2022-09-19T21:15:09.490

2 years ago

Last modified

2022-11-03T20:44:05.247

2 years ago