PT-2015-7326 · Mediawiki · Mediawiki Quiz Extension

John Menerick · Published 2015-09-01 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-6736

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki Quiz extension (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by using regex metacharacters in a regular expression.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-17

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-6736

Affected Products

Mediawiki Quiz Extension

References · 7

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6736 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/76362 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6 · Note