Vulnerability in MediaWiki
CVE-2012-4885
The wikitext parser in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via certain input, as demonstrated by the padleft function.
EPSS: 0.019 (77.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mediawiki — versions 1.17, 1.17.0, 1.17.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)