An 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).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-07-02T13:01:13

Updated: 2024-08-04T00:47:43.814Z

Reserved: 2021-07-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-36125

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-07-02T13:15:07.760

Modified: 2021-07-07T17:10:00.870

Link: CVE-2021-36125

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