CVE-2021-41799

Description

MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). ApiQueryBacklinks (action=query&list=backlinks) can cause a full table scan.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.5

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.268

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
mediawiki security update(DSA-4979-1) mediawiki_1.35.4-1~deb11u1_all.deb	Linux
mediawiki security update(DSA-4979-1) Debian_mediawiki_1.35.4-1~deb11u1_all.deb	Linux
mediawiki security update(DSA-4979-1) mediawiki_1.31.16-1~deb10u1_all.deb	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234