CVE-2022-28201 - Uncontrolled Recursion

Severity

44%

Complexity

8%

Confidentiality

60%

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Overview

First reported 2 years ago

2022-09-19 21:15:00

Last updated 2 years ago

2022-11-03 20:43:00

Affected Software

Mediawiki

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571

https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.html

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571

Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.html

Exploit, Third Party Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20220922 [SECURITY] [DLA 3117-1] mediawiki security update

[debian-lts-announce] 20220922 [SECURITY] [DLA 3117-1] mediawiki security update

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

DSA-5246

DSA-5246

Third Party Advisory

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