MediaWiki Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Vulnerability - CVE-2021-41800 - Vulnerability Database

MediaWiki Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Vulnerability - CVE-2021-41800

Medium

Reference: CVE-2021-41800

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41800

Title: MediaWiki Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Vulnerability

Overview:

MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). Visiting Special:Contributions can sometimes result in a long running SQL query because PoolCounter protection is mishandled.