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Medium

CVE-2021-41800

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.

VectorNETWORK

PublishedOct 11, 2021, 08:15

Published Bycve@mitre.org

Base Score

Score5.3

Affected Versions

Package (Ecosystem)IntroducedFixedLimit

mediawiki/core(Packagist)01.36.2N/A

References

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/781caf83dba90c18349f930bbaaa0e89f003f874
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CJDYJQWT43GBD6GNQ4OW7JOZ6WQ6DZTN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MDBPECBWN6LWNSWIQMVXK6PP4YFEUYHA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNEAI2T3Y65I55ZB6UE6RMC662RZTGRX/
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l%40lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2IFS5CM2YV4VMSODPX3J2LFHKSEWVFV5/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284419
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24

Weakness Type

CWE-770

CVSS Metrics

Base Score

5.3

Vector String

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

Base SeverityMedium

Version

3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

NETWORK