PT-2015-7701 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Robinhood70 · Published 2015-10-29 · Updated 2015-11-10 · CVE-2015-8002

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.11 MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.4 MediaWiki versions 1.25.x prior to 1.25.3

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, specifically disk consumption, by uploading files in one byte chunks using the chunked upload API (ApiUpload).

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.11, update to version 1.23.11 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.4, update to version 1.24.4 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.25.x prior to 1.25.3, update to version 1.25.3 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1935

CVE-2015-8002

MGASA-2015-0421

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 42

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6728 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8002 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2932 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2931 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8005 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6733 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2938 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8001 · Security Note
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91205 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2937 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2942 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8002 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8002 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8009 · Security Note
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-October/000181.html · Vendor Advisory