CVE-2024-34506 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2024-34506?

CVE-2024-34506 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 5 May 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage.php in MediaWiki before 1.39.7, 1.40.x before 1.40.3, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. If a user with the necessary rights to move the page opens Special:MovePage for a page with tens of thousands of subpages, then the page will exceed the maximum request time, leading to a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-34506?

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-2024-34506?

Upgrade mediawiki to 1.41.1 or later.

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-2024-34506 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-34506 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-2024-34506, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-34506, DSA-5651-1, GHSA-v7x8-wrhv-8rh2, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-34506.