CVE-2023-45363 — Infinite Loop in Mediawiki

CWE-835 — Infinite Loop5 documents4 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
11.0%
top 6.54%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
MediawikiMediawiki CoreDebian Mediawiki+1 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 9

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Packagistmediawiki/core1.36.0 — 1.39.5+2
▶debiandebian/mediawiki< mediawiki 1:1.39.5-1~deb12u1 (bookworm)
▶NVDmediawiki/mediawiki1.36.0 — 1.39.5+2
▶Debianmediawiki/mediawiki< 1:1.35.13-1~deb11u1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0, 12.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
MediaWiki Denial of Service vulnerability↗2023-10-09
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OSV
CVE-2023-45363: An issue was discovered in ApiPageSet↗2023-10-09
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GHSA
MediaWiki Denial of Service vulnerability↗2023-10-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2023-45363: mediawiki - An issue was discovered in ApiPageSet.php in MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x th...↗2023
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