Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting wikibase/wikibase package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-WIKIBASEWIKIBASE-5950409
  • published9 Oct 2023
  • disclosed9 Oct 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-45371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

wikibase/wikibase is a Structured data repository for MediaWiki

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the EntityRedirectCreationInteractor and ItemMergeInteractor functions due to missing rate limiting. An attacker can cause a denial of service by repeatedly merging items without any rate limit.

CVSS Scores

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