CVE-2024-34506 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Mediawiki

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 61.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
MediawikiFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedMay 5

Description

An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage.php in MediaWiki before 1.39.7, 1.40.x before 1.40.3, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. If a user with the necessary rights to move the page opens Special:MovePage for a page with tens of thousands of subpages, then the page will exceed the maximum request time, leading to a denial of service.

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 Packages2 packages

▶NVDmediawiki/mediawiki1.40.0 — 1.40.3+2
▶Debianmediawiki/mediawiki< 1:1.35.13-1+deb11u2+3

Also affects: Fedora 40

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-v7x8-wrhv-8rh2: An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage↗2024-05-05
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CVEList
CVE-2024-34506: An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage↗2024-05-05
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OSV
CVE-2024-34506: An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage↗2024-05-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
mediawiki: denial of service↗2024-05-05
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Debian
CVE-2024-34506: mediawiki - An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage.php in MediaWiki be...↗2024
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