CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-2936
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-04-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
MediaWiki 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using PBKDF2 for password hashing, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.24.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.24.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477 www.securityfocus.com
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64685 phabricator.wikimedia.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477 www.securityfocus.com
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64685 phabricator.wikimedia.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 security.gentoo.org