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CVE-2012-4885

Date: September 9, 2012

The wikitext parser in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via certain input, as demonstrated by the padleft function.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

http://secunia.com/advisories/48504
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4885
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22555
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-4885

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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