CVE-2009-3622 — Wordpress vulnerability

CWE-3106 documents6 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
8.3%
top 7.74%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WordpressDebian Wordpress
Timeline
PublishedOct 23
Latest updateMay 2

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback.php in WordPress before 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and server hang) via a long title parameter in conjunction with a charset parameter composed of many comma-separated "UTF-8" substrings, related to the mb_convert_encoding function in PHP.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 2.8.5-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 2.8.5-1+3

Patches

Patch: www.vupen.com ↗Patch: www.vupen.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-m4j7-w5vj-fwff: Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback↗2022-05-02
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OSV
CVE-2009-3622: Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback↗2009-10-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
WordPress: Resource exhaustion (DoS)↗2009-10-20
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Debian
CVE-2009-3622: wordpress - Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback.php in WordPress before 2.8...↗2009
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2009-3622 WordPress: Resource exhaustion (DoS)↗2009-10-21
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CVE-2009-3622 — Debian Wordpress vulnerability | cvebase