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CVE-2015-2937

Published: Apr 13, 2015 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2937
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
MediawikiMediawiki*1.19.23 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.20 (including)1.20 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.20.1 (including)1.20.1 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.20.2 (including)1.20.2 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.20.3 (including)1.20.3 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.20.4 (including)1.20.4 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.20.5 (including)1.20.5 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.20.6 (including)1.20.6 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.20.7 (including)1.20.7 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.20.8 (including)1.20.8 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21 (including)1.21 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.1 (including)1.21.1 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.2 (including)1.21.2 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.3 (including)1.21.3 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.4 (including)1.21.4 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.5 (including)1.21.5 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.6 (including)1.21.6 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.7 (including)1.21.7 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.8 (including)1.21.8 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.9 (including)1.21.9 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.10 (including)1.21.10 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.21.11 (including)1.21.11 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.0 (including)1.22.0 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.1 (including)1.22.1 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.2 (including)1.22.2 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.3 (including)1.22.3 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.4 (including)1.22.4 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.5 (including)1.22.5 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.6 (including)1.22.6 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.7 (including)1.22.7 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.8 (including)1.22.8 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.9 (including)1.22.9 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.10 (including)1.22.10 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.11 (including)1.22.11 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.12 (including)1.22.12 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.13 (including)1.22.13 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.14 (including)1.22.14 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.22.15 (including)1.22.15 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.23.0 (including)1.23.0 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.23.1 (including)1.23.1 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.23.2 (including)1.23.2 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.23.3 (including)1.23.3 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.23.4 (including)1.23.4 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.23.5 (including)1.23.5 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.23.6 (including)1.23.6 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.23.7 (including)1.23.7 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.23.8 (including)1.23.8 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.24.0 (including)1.24.0 (including)
MediawikiMediawiki1.24.1 (including)1.24.1 (including)
MediawikiUbuntuartful*
MediawikiUbuntulucid*
MediawikiUbuntuprecise*
MediawikiUbuntutrusty*
MediawikiUbuntuupstream*
MediawikiUbuntuutopic*
MediawikiUbuntuvivid*
MediawikiUbuntuwily*
MediawikiUbuntuyakkety*
MediawikiUbuntuzesty*

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