wikimedia/mediawiki · Security
MediaWiki Denial of Service vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-w5fx-cx7f-6vr9
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-45363
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
An issue was discovered in ApiPageSet.php in MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.5, and 1.40.x before 1.40.1. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded loop and RequestTimeoutException) when querying pages redirected to other variants with redirects and converttitles set.
CWEs
- CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45363 ↗
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333050 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5520 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00027.html ↗
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/24c3ef2474c6daa20ed48168d46196a55346dfd8 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w5fx-cx7f-6vr9 ↗