CVE-2021-41800

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.3
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.177

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
mediawiki security update(DSA-4979-1) mediawiki_1.35.4-1~deb11u1_all.debLinux
mediawiki security update(DSA-4979-1) Debian_mediawiki_1.35.4-1~deb11u1_all.debLinux
mediawiki security update(DSA-4979-1) mediawiki_1.31.16-1~deb10u1_all.debLinux

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