CVE-2018-25246

Summary

Wikipedia 12.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting oversized input through the search functionality. Attackers can paste a large buffer of repeated characters into the search bar to trigger an application crash.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45324
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/wikipedia/9wzdncrfhwm4?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab

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