cve-2021-36125
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-07-02 13:01
Modified
2024-08-04 00:47
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Special:GlobalRenameRequest page is vulnerable to infinite loops and denial of service attacks when a user's current username is beyond an arbitrary maximum configuration value (MaxNameChars).
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