VDB
CVE-2015-2937
CVE-2015-2937
REJECTED
MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM or Zend PHP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("quadratic blowup" and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2942.
EPSS 2.02% · 84.1th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
2.02%
84.1th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | mediawiki | 0, 1:1.27.3-1, 1:1.27.4-1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- GLSA-201510-05 (circl)
- MDVSA-2015:200 (circl)
- 73477 (circl)
- [oss-security] 20150407 Re: CVE request: MediaWiki 1.24.2/1.23.9/1.19.24 (circl)
- [oss-security] 20150331 CVE request: MediaWiki 1.24.2/1.23.9/1.19.24 (circl)
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20150331 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.24, 1.23.9, and 1.24.2 (circl)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71210 (circl)
Timeline
- Apr 13, 2015 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
- Sep 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Oct 29, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2937 third-party-advisory
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html third-party-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2937 third-party-advisory