GHSA-w5fx-cx7f-6vr9HighCVSS 7.5
MediaWiki Denial of Service vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
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.
🎯 Affected products3
- composer/mediawiki/core:< 1.35.12
- composer/mediawiki/core:>= 1.36.0, < 1.39.5
- composer/mediawiki/core:= 1.40.0
🔗 References (6)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45363
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333050
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5520
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00027.html
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/24c3ef2474c6daa20ed48168d46196a55346dfd8
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w5fx-cx7f-6vr9