CVE-2023-22909 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2023-22909?

CVE-2023-22909 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 10 Jan 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. SpecialMobileHistory allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because database queries are slow.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-22909?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including mediawiki. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Mediawiki Mediawiki.

How do I fix CVE-2023-22909?

Upgrade mediawiki to a fixed version for your release line: 1.35.9, 1.38.5 or 1.39.1.

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-2023-22909 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22909 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as BIT-mediawiki-2023-22909, GHSA-4wpp-22r3-jr8g, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22909.