wikimedia/mediawiki · Security
Wikimedia Potential DOS due to slow WatchedItemStore::countVisitingWatchersMultiple
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-33xw-x3pr-rvqj
- CVE ID
- CVE-2019-12473
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Wikimedia MediaWiki 1.27.0 through 1.32.1 might allow DoS. Passing invalid titles to the API could cause a DoS by querying the entire watchlist table. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12473 ↗
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092152.html ↗
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204729 ↗
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/12 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4460 ↗
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/mediawiki/core/CVE-2019-12473.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-33xw-x3pr-rvqj ↗