CVE-2024-34506

Published: 5 May 2024

An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage.php in MediaWiki before 1.39.7, 1.40.x before 1.40.3, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. If a user with the necessary rights to move the page opens Special:MovePage for a page with tens of thousands of subpages, then the page will exceed the maximum request time, leading to a denial of service.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
mediawiki Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Needs triage
	mantic	Needs triage
	noble	Not vulnerable (1:1.39.7-1)
	upstream	Released (1:1.39.7-1)

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-34506
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/V3WXEPXV2DU6WTVEKK4XHW4QXD5OFKD7/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357760
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1015423
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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