CVE-2023-45363 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in ApiPageSet.php in MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.5, and 1.40.x before 1.40.1. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded loop and RequestTimeoutException) when querying pages redirected to other variants with redirects and converttitles set.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.08189.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Mediawiki	Mediawiki

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.40.0:-::::::

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-3671-1	mediawiki security update
Debian DSA	DSA-5520-1	mediawiki security update
EUVD	EUVD-2023-2825	An issue was discovered in ApiPageSet.php in MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.5, and 1.40.x before 1.40.1. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded loop and RequestTimeoutException) when querying pages redirected to other variants with redirects and converttitles set.
Github GHSA	GHSA-w5fx-cx7f-6vr9	MediaWiki Denial of Service vulnerability

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00027.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333050
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5520

History

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-10-09T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-10-15T18:00:10.847Z

Reserved: 2023-10-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2023-45363

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T20:21:16.463Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-09T05:15:09.220

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:26:49.407

Link: CVE-2023-45363

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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