Name: CVE-2021-41800: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published: 2021-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2021-41800, CWE-770, CVSS 5.3, EPSS 0.01749

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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.3
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	View advisory ↗	debian-upgrade-mediawiki	Nov 29, 2021	Oct 11, 2021
Freebsd	View advisory ↗	freebsd-upgrade-package-mediawiki131freebsd-upgrade-package-mediawiki135freebsd-upgrade-package-mediawiki136	Nov 4, 2022	Oct 1, 2021
Gentoo Linux	View advisory ↗	gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-apps-mediawiki	May 23, 2023	Oct 11, 2021
Mediawiki	View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗	mediawiki-upgrade-latest	Nov 26, 2021	Oct 11, 2021

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