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ghsa-52vr-v6fr-rfg8

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 19:06

Modified

2022-05-24 19:06

Details

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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CVE-2021-36125 (GCVE-0-2021-36125)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-07-02 13:01

Modified

2024-08-04 00:47

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

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).

References

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	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260865	x_refsource_MISC
	https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I97d8b3236b5abed8ba9a9c4d3ab5050c2e782c22	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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