CVE-2012-4885

N/A

Description

The wikitext parser in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via certain input, as demonstrated by the padleft function.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published9/9/2012

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

mediawiki:mediawiki

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/48504(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22555(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/48504(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22555(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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