Resource exhaustion in MediaWiki - CVE-2022-39194

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Resource exhaustion in MediaWiki - CVE-2022-39194

Published: October 7, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU67983
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-39194
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: MediaWiki.org
Affected software:
MediaWiki

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the community configuration pages for the GrowthExperiments extension. A remote administrator can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2022-39194

Install updates from vendor's website.

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