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.
EPSS: 0.027 (84.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mediawiki — versions 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)