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
Link Resource
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I97d8b3236b5abed8ba9a9c4d3ab5050c2e782c22 Patch Vendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260865 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-07-02T13:01:13

Updated: 2021-07-02T13:01:13

Reserved: 2021-07-02T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-36125

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-07-02T13:15:07.760

Modified: 2021-07-07T17:10:00.870


Link: CVE-2021-36125

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CWE