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MediaWiki Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop) Vulnerability - CVE-2021-36125 - Vulnerability Database
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MediaWiki Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop) Vulnerability - CVE-2021-36125

High
Reference: CVE-2021-36125
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36125
Title: MediaWiki Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop) Vulnerability
Overview:

An issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Special:GlobalRenameRequest page is vulnerable to infinite loops and denial of service attacks when a user39s current username is beyond an arbitrary maximum configuration value (MaxNameChars).