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Vulnerability details: VCID-9p61-293j-aaae
Vulnerability ID VCID-9p61-293j-aaae
Aliases CVE-2015-2937
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.4
Risk 3.2
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
System Score Found at
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generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2937
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cvssv2 7.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2937
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Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-2937.html
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2937
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2937
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71210
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
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CVE-2015-2937 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2937
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2937
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.76437
EPSS Score 0.01137
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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