CVE-2025-62666 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - CirrusSearch Extension allows HTTP DoS.This issue affects Mediawiki - CirrusSearch Extension: from master before 1.43.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact Low

Subsequent System Integrity Impact Low

Subsequent System Availability Impact Low

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00042.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I3e8d819868c0491b18368af8e543180e747023c2
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401220

History

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - CirrusSearch Extension allows HTTP DoS.This issue affects Mediawiki - CirrusSearch Extension: from master before 1.43.
Title		DoS vector through the cirrusbuilddoc query API
Weaknesses		CWE-770
References		https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I3e8d819868c0491b18368af8e543180e747023c2 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401220
Metrics		cvssV4_0 `{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published: 2025-10-18T04:47:52.437Z

Updated: 2025-10-18T04:47:52.437Z

Reserved: 2025-10-18T04:03:51.880Z

Link: CVE-2025-62666

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-10-18T05:15:34.200

Modified: 2025-10-18T05:15:34.200

Link: CVE-2025-62666

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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