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MediaWiki: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2023-29139)

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MediaWiki: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2023-29139)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/31/2023
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/12/2023
Modified
04/12/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki through 1.39.3. When a user with checkuserlog permissions makes many CheckUserLog API requests in some configurations, denial of service can occur (RequestTimeoutException or upstream request timeout).

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

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