CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-28203
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-09-19
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-763
Description
A denial-of-service issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. When many files exist, requesting Special:NewFiles with actor as a condition can result in a very long running query.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki (< 1.35.6)
• mediawiki mediawiki (>= 1.36.0 < 1.36.4)
• mediawiki mediawiki (>= 1.37.0 < 1.37.2)
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-763 Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference weakness
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297731 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297731 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246 Third Party Advisory