Bug 2124765 (CVE-2022-39194)

Summary:	CVE-2022-39194 mediawiki: global DoS via site admin
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	Axel.Thimm, mike, orion, puiterwijk
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found in the MediaWiki package. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks, affecting system availability.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2124767
Bug Blocks:	2123793

Description Avinash Hanwate 2022-09-07 05:46:04 UTC

An issue was discovered in the MediaWiki through 1.38.2. The community configuration pages for the GrowthExperiments extension could cause a site to become unavailable due to insufficient validation when certain actions (including page moves) were performed.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313205

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2022-09-07 05:46:34 UTC

Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2124767]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-11-25 03:24:55 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-39194