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MediaWiki: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-2021-41800)

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MediaWiki: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-2021-41800)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/11/2021
Created
11/28/2021
Added
11/26/2021
Modified
11/08/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_36_2

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