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Vulnerability ID | VCID-q2kd-6muk-aaan |
Aliases |
CVE-2015-2942
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Summary | MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large number of nested entity references in an (1) SVG file or (2) XMP metadata in a PDF file, aka a "billion laughs attack," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2937. |
Status | Published |
Exploitability | 0.5 |
Weighted Severity | 6.4 |
Risk | 3.2 |
Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
CWE-399 | Resource Management Errors |
Exploitability (E) | Access Vector (AV) | Access Complexity (AC) | Authentication (Au) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
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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 |
Percentile | 0.79424 |
EPSS Score | 0.01504 |
Published At | March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m. |
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