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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.86% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-MEDIAWIKI-11760720
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed11 Oct 2021

Introduced: 11 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-41800  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 mediawiki to version 1:1.35.4-1 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:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1