Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.35.4-1~deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-MEDIAWIKI-1727372
  • published1 Oct 2021
  • disclosed11 Oct 2021

Introduced: 1 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-41799  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 mediawiki to version 1:1.35.4-1~deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki package and not the mediawiki package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). ApiQueryBacklinks (action=query&list=backlinks) can cause a full table scan.

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