Input validation error in MediaWiki - CVE-2013-1816
Published: November 20, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30591
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1816
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
MediaWiki before 1.19.4 and 1.20.x before 1.20.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by sending a specially crafted request.
Affected software
MediaWiki
Fedora
mediawiki119
Fedora
mediawiki119
How to mitigate CVE-2013-1816
Install update from vendor's website.
MediaWiki - update to 1.20.3
mediawiki119 - update to 1.19.4-1.el6
mediawiki119 - update to 1.19.4-1.el6
External References
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-21.xml
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58306
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-1816
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88360
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1816