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cve[email protected]CVE-2021-41799
HistoryOct 11, 2021 - 8:15 a.m.

CVE-2021-41799

2021-10-1108:15:06
CWE-770
web.nvd.nist.gov
67
cve-2021-41799
mediawiki
denial of service
resource consumption
apiquerybacklinks
nvd

CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

7.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

73.3%

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

NVD
Node
mediawikimediawikiRange<1.36.2
Node
fedoraprojectfedoraMatch33
OR
fedoraprojectfedoraMatch34
OR
fedoraprojectfedoraMatch35

CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

7.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

73.3%