github - ghsa-9p44-q66p-xm6p

ghsa-9p44-q66p-xm6p

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-10-21 18:30

Modified

2025-10-27 20:01

Severity ?

5.7 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Summary

ProcessWire CMS vulnerable to resource-exhaustion Denial of Service

Details

ProcessWire CMS 3.0.246 allows a low-privileged user with lang-edit to upload a crafted ZIP to Language Support that is auto-extracted without limits prior to validation, enabling resource-exhaustion Denial of Service.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Packagist",
        "name": "processwire/processwire"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "3.0.246"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-60790"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400",
      "CWE-409"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-10-21T21:04:22Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-10-21T18:15:36Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "ProcessWire CMS 3.0.246 allows a low-privileged user with lang-edit to upload a crafted ZIP to Language Support that is auto-extracted without limits prior to validation, enabling resource-exhaustion Denial of Service.",
  "id": "GHSA-9p44-q66p-xm6p",
  "modified": "2025-10-27T20:01:33Z",
  "published": "2025-10-21T18:30:35Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-60790"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/processwire/processwire-issues/issues/2120"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/NomanProdhan/security-vulnerability-research/tree/master/CVE-2025-60790"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/processwire/processwire"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "ProcessWire CMS vulnerable to resource-exhaustion Denial of Service"
}

CVE-2025-60790 (GCVE-0-2025-60790)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-10-21 00:00

Modified

2025-10-27 15:39

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

n/a

Summary

ProcessWire CMS 3.0.246 allows a low-privileged user with lang-edit to upload a crafted ZIP to Language Support that is auto-extracted without limits prior to validation, enabling resource-exhaustion Denial of Service.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/processwire/processwire-issues/issues/2120
	https://github.com/NomanProdhan/security-vulnerability-research/tree/master/CVE-2025-60790

Impacted products

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

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}

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