What is CVE-2022-28204?

CVE-2022-28204 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-09-19.

How severe is CVE-2022-28204?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Mediawiki

CVE-2022-28204

A denial-of-service issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Rendering of w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Property%3AP31&namespace=1&invert=1 can take more than thirty seconds. There is a DDoS risk.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.009 (54.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Mediawiki
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-28204?: CVE-2022-28204 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-09-19.
How severe is CVE-2022-28204?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.