CVE-2015-8001 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8001?

CVE-2015-8001 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki, published on 9 Nov 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The chunked upload API (ApiUpload) in MediaWiki before 1.23.11, 1.24.x before 1.24.4, and 1.25.x before 1.25.3 does not restrict the uploaded data to the claimed file size, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via a chunk that exceeds the file size.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8001?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mediawiki Mediawiki.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8001?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-8001 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8001 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Mediawiki Mediawiki vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8001, GHSA-7w48-ffwf-583v.