CVE-2015-6733 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

GeSHi, as used in the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension and MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01485.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mediawiki Subscribe	Mediawiki Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.25.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.25.1:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-6671	GeSHi, as used in the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension and MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76361
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101608
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-09-01T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:29:24.872Z

Reserved: 2015-08-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-6733

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-09-01T14:59:11.573

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-6733

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-399

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