CVE-2012-4885
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:1.19.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:1.19.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:1.19.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:1.19.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:1.19.0-1 |
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48504
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22555
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4885
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.