Description

MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). ApiQueryBacklinks (action=query&list=backlinks) can cause a full table scan.

Remediation

References

CVE-2021-41799

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Internet Information Services Other Vulnerability (CVE-2001-0337)

MySQL CVE-2021-2164 Vulnerability (CVE-2021-2164)

IBM WebSEAL Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File Vulnerability (CVE-2017-1480)

WordPress Plugin Leaflet 'id' Parameter Cross-Site Scripting (0.0.1)

Oracle Application Server CVE-2008-0345 Vulnerability (CVE-2008-0345)

Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-41799 CWE-770 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities