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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-6cu8-8hhm-87as",
    "summary": "MediaWiki Denial of Service vulnerability\nAn issue was discovered in ApiPageSet.php in MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.5, and 1.40.x before 1.40.1. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded loop and RequestTimeoutException) when querying pages redirected to other variants with redirects and converttitles set.",
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