Denial of service in XWiki Platform

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU72772

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26470

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

XWiki platform: before 14.0 rc-1

External links

http://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/fdfce062642b0ac062da5cda033d25482f4600fa
http://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/db3d1c62fc5fb59fefcda3b86065d2d362f55164
http://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/04e5a89d2879b160cdfaea846024d3d9c1a525e6
http://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-92wp-r7hm-42g7
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19223

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.