GHSA-c8wv-qwwc-6j73

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    GHSA-c8wv-qwwc-6j73

    Published: 24 May 2022Last Modified: 20 Feb 2024

    Summary: MediaWiki allows a denial of service

    Details: MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). Visiting Special:Contributions can sometimes result in a long running SQL query because PoolCounter protection is mishandled.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41800, https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/781caf83dba90c18349f930bbaaa0e89f003f874, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CJDYJQWT43GBD6GNQ4OW7JOZ6WQ6DZTN, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MDBPECBWN6LWNSWIQMVXK6PP4YFEUYHA, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QNEAI2T3Y65I55ZB6UE6RMC662RZTGRX, https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/2IFS5CM2YV4VMSODPX3J2LFHKSEWVFV5, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284419, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mediawiki/core

    Purl: pkg:composer/mediawiki/core

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.36.2

    Affected versions

    1.20.3
    1.20.4
    1.20.5
    1.20.6
    1.20.7
    1.20.8

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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