CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-41799

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-10-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-10-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Description

MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). ApiQueryBacklinks (action=query&list=backlinks) can cause a full table scan.

Affected configurations

• mediawiki mediawiki (< 1.36.2) • fedoraproject fedora 33 • fedoraproject fedora 34 • fedoraproject fedora 35

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References