CVE-2015-2942

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, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large number of nested entity references in an (1) SVG file or (2) XMP metadata in a PDF file, aka a "billion laughs attack," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2937.

MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large number of nested entity references in an (1) SVG file or (2) XMP metadata in a PDF file, aka a "billion laughs attack," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2937.

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 10 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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