Vulnerability in MediaWiki
CVE-2015-6733
GeSHi, as used in the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension and MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.027 (85.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.7% 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 1.24.0, 1.24.1, 1.24.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6 (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6 (mailing-list)
- phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101608
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/76361 (vdb-entry)