CVE-2015-2937

Severity

71%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

115%

MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM or Zend PHP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("quadratic blowup" and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2942.

MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM or Zend PHP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("quadratic blowup" and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2942.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-04-13 14:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-07 18:11:00

Affected Software

Mediawiki

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.20

1.20

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.20.1

1.20.1

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.20.2

1.20.2

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.20.3

1.20.3

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.20.4

1.20.4

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.20.5

1.20.5

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.20.6

1.20.6

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.20.7

1.20.7

MediaWiki 1.20.8

1.20.8

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.21

1.21

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.21.1

1.21.1

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.21.2

1.21.2

MediaWiki 1.21.3

1.21.3

MediaWiki 1.21.4

1.21.4

MediaWiki 1.21.5

1.21.5

MediaWiki 1.21.6

1.21.6

MediaWiki 1.21.7

1.21.7

MediaWiki 1.21.8

1.21.8

MediaWiki 1.21.9

1.21.9

MediaWiki 1.21.10

1.21.10

MediaWiki 1.21.11

1.21.11

MediaWiki 1.22.0

1.22.0

MediaWiki 1.22.1

1.22.1

MediaWiki 1.22.2

1.22.2

MediaWiki 1.22.3

1.22.3

MediaWiki 1.22.4

1.22.4

MediaWiki 1.22.5

1.22.5

MediaWiki 1.22.6

1.22.6

MediaWiki 1.22.7

1.22.7

MediaWiki 1.22.8

1.22.8

MediaWiki 1.22.9

1.22.9

MediaWiki 1.22.10

1.22.10

MediaWiki 1.22.11

1.22.11

MediaWiki 1.22.12

1.22.12

MediaWiki 1.22.13

1.22.13

MediaWiki 1.22.14

1.22.14

MediaWiki 1.22.15

1.22.15

MediaWiki 1.23.0

1.23.0

MediaWiki 1.23.1

1.23.1

MediaWiki 1.23.2

1.23.2

MediaWiki 1.23.3

1.23.3

MediaWiki 1.23.4

1.23.4

MediaWiki 1.23.5

1.23.5

MediaWiki 1.23.6

1.23.6

MediaWiki 1.23.7

1.23.7

MediaWiki 1.23.8

1.23.8

MediaWiki 1.24.0

1.24.0

MediaWiki 1.24.1

1.24.1

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