Security Advisory

CVE-2021-36125

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-07-02 13:01:13
Last updated 2024-08-04 00:47:43
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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 users current username is beyond an arbitrary maximum configuration value (MaxNameChars).