GHSA-w5fx-cx7f-6vr9

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    GHSA-w5fx-cx7f-6vr9

    Published: 9 Oct 2023Last Modified: 30 Oct 2024

    Summary: MediaWiki Denial of Service vulnerability

    Details: An issue was discovered in ApiPageSet.php in MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.5, and 1.40.x before 1.40.1. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded loop and RequestTimeoutException) when querying pages redirected to other variants with redirects and converttitles set.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45363, https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/24c3ef2474c6daa20ed48168d46196a55346dfd8, https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00027.html, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333050, https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5520

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mediawiki/core

    Purl: pkg:composer/mediawiki/core

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.35.12

    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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