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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2023-45363: mediawiki -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 9, 2023
Added
Oct 12, 2023
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-mediawiki
Title
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