CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-41800
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-10-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- 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). Visiting Special:Contributions can sometimes result in a long running SQL query because PoolCounter protection is mishandled.
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
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/781caf83dba90c18349f930bbaaa0e89f003f874 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CJDYJQWT43GBD6GNQ4OW7JOZ6WQ6DZTN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MDBPECBWN6LWNSWIQMVXK6PP4YFEUYHA/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNEAI2T3Y65I55ZB6UE6RMC662RZTGRX/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l%40lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2IFS5CM2YV4VMSODPX3J2LFHKSEWVFV5/ lists.wikimedia.org
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284419 Permissions Required
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24 security.gentoo.org
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/781caf83dba90c18349f930bbaaa0e89f003f874 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CJDYJQWT43GBD6GNQ4OW7JOZ6WQ6DZTN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MDBPECBWN6LWNSWIQMVXK6PP4YFEUYHA/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNEAI2T3Y65I55ZB6UE6RMC662RZTGRX/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l%40lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2IFS5CM2YV4VMSODPX3J2LFHKSEWVFV5/ lists.wikimedia.org
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284419 Permissions Required
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24 security.gentoo.org