CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-111901
8.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-10-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.7 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- 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-400
Description
phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the unauthenticated faqs and search API endpoints. Attackers can send concurrent GET requests that load and process all database records into PHP memory, exhausting CPU and memory to crash the server.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-m42f-6p37-2c79 github.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyfaq-4.2.0-alpha-before-4.2.0-beta-unauthenticated-dos-via-api-pagination www.vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-m42f-6p37-2c79 github.com