CVE-2023-45367 (GCVE-0-2023-45367)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-09-19 18:04
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.5, and 1.40.x before 1.40.1. A user can use a rest.php/checkuser/v0/useragent-clienthints/revision/ URL to store an arbitrary number of rows in cu_useragent_clienthints, leading to a denial of service.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-19 18:04 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
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