Description
MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). Visiting Special:Contributions can sometimes result in a long running SQL query because PoolCounter protection is mishandled.
Published: 2021-10-11
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4979-1 mediawiki security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-3541 MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). Visiting Special:Contributions can sometimes result in a long running SQL query because PoolCounter protection is mishandled.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-c8wv-qwwc-6j73 MediaWiki allows a denial of service
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Fedoraproject Fedora
Mediawiki Mediawiki
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:22:24.334Z

Reserved: 2021-09-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-41800

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-11T08:15:06.813

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:26:47.150

Link: CVE-2021-41800

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-09-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-41800 - Bugzilla

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