CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-46149
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-01-10
- 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-400
Description
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. A denial of service (resource consumption) can be accomplished by searching for a very long key in a Language Name Search.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki (< 1.35.5)
• mediawiki mediawiki (>= 1.36.0 < 1.36.3)
• mediawiki mediawiki (>= 1.37.0 < 1.37.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ide32704cca578b9aecbce34bdcc0ac25c2a09a4d Third Party Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293749 Third Party Advisory
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ide32704cca578b9aecbce34bdcc0ac25c2a09a4d Third Party Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293749 Third Party Advisory