CVE-2015-6736

high

Description

The Quiz extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via regex metacharacters in a regular expression.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-09-01

Updated: 2016-12-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High