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CVE-2015-2936

Date: April 13, 2015

MediaWiki 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using PBKDF2 for password hashing, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password.

Language: PHP

Severity Score

5.9

Related Resources (10)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1

Url: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64685

Url: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2936

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2936

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-2936

Severity Score

5.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.9
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.1
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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