CVE-2021-41800

Published: 11 October 2021

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.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 5.3

Status

Package	Release	Status
mediawiki Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	hirsute	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	impish	Needs triage
	jammy	Needs triage
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (1:1.35.4-1)
	xenial	Ignored (out of standard support)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-41800
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2IFS5CM2YV4VMSODPX3J2LFHKSEWVFV5/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284419
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