CVE-2021-36125

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-36125
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-07-02 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-07 17:10:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Special:GlobalRenameRequest page is vulnerable to infinite loops and denial of service attacks when a user's current username is beyond an arbitrary maximum configuration value (MaxNameChars).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mediawiki Mediawiki All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
⚓ T260865 Very long usernames can cause an infinite loop when loading Special:GlobalRenameRequest MISC phabricator.wikimedia.org
gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I97d8b3236b5abed8ba9a9c4d3ab5050c2e782c22 MISC gerrit.wikimedia.org
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