CVE-2021-36125

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-36125
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-36125.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-36125
Aliases
Published
2021-07-02T13:15:07.760Z
Modified
2026-07-09T01:31:14.684529Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Special:GlobalRenameRequest page is vulnerable to infinite loops and denial of service attacks when a user's current username is beyond an arbitrary maximum configuration value (MaxNameChars).

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
3da22025cf4ec7c143049685d4510870a5afd137
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.36"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.1.0
1.3.0beta1
1.36.0
1.36.0-rc.0
1.36.1
1.36.2
1.36.3
1.36.4
1.5.0alpha1
1.5.0alpha2
1.5.0beta1
1.5.0beta2
1.5.0beta3
1.5.0beta4
1.6.0
Other
REL1_36
test-hashar-for-ci

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-36125.json"