CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-45363

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Oct 09, 2023 | Modified: Nov 28, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in ApiPageSet.php in MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.5, and 1.40.x before 1.40.1. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded loop and RequestTimeoutException) when querying pages redirected to other variants with redirects and converttitles set.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mediawiki Mediawiki * 1.35.12 (excluding)
Mediawiki Mediawiki 1.36.0 (including) 1.39.5 (excluding)
Mediawiki Mediawiki 1.40.0 (including) 1.40.0 (including)

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