What is CVE-2024-34506?

CVE-2024-34506 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-05-05.

How severe is CVE-2024-34506?

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

Resource exhaustion in Mediawiki

CVE-2024-34506

An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage.php in MediaWiki before 1.39.7, 1.40.x before 1.40.3, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. If a user with the necessary rights to move the page opens Special:MovePage for a page with tens of thousands of subpages, then the page will exceed the maximum request time, leading to a denial of service.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.009 (56.0th 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
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 40
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-34506?: CVE-2024-34506 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-05-05.
How severe is CVE-2024-34506?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.