Vulnerability in MediaWiki
CVE-2015-2937
MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM or Zend PHP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("quadratic blowup" and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2942.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.027 (85.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.027 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- MediaWiki — versions 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477 (vdb-entry)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3 (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 (mailing-list)
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Patch)
- phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71210