PT-2015-5986 · Wikimedia · Mediawiki

Bawolff · Published 2015-04-09 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-2936

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions 1.24.x through 1.24.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically consuming CPU resources, by providing a long password when the PBKDF2 algorithm is used for password hashing.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions 1.24.x through 1.24.1, update to version 1.24.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-2936

MGASA-2015-0142

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 18

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0142.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-2936 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2936 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2936 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2936 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2936 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2936 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0142 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2936 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/73477 · Note