Bug 2161186 (CVE-2023-22909)

Summary:	CVE-2023-22909 MediaWiki: Remote DoS
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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Description Avinash Hanwate 2023-01-16 09:13:14 UTC

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. SpecialMobileHistory allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because database queries are slow.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320987

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2023-01-16 09:13:42 UTC

Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2161187]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-01-20 15:52:10 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-2023-22909