CVE-2015-6736 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Quiz extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via regex metacharacters in a regular expression.

Published: 2015-09-01

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 1.6% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:quiz_project:quiz:-:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-6674	The Quiz extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via regex metacharacters in a regular expression.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01612.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05

History

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Subscriptions

Quiz Project Quiz

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-09-01T14:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:29:24.879Z

Reserved: 2015-08-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-6736

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-09-01T14:59:14.650

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-6736

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-17

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