{"id":"BIT-mediawiki-2021-36125","details":"An issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Special:GlobalRenameRequest page is vulnerable to infinite loops and denial of service attacks when a user's current username is beyond an arbitrary maximum configuration value (MaxNameChars).","aliases":["CVE-2021-36125"],"modified":"2025-04-03T14:40:37.652Z","published":"2024-03-06T11:11:39.810Z","database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"severity":"High"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I97d8b3236b5abed8ba9a9c4d3ab5050c2e782c22"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260865"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36125"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mediawiki","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/mediawiki"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.36.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/mediawiki/BIT-mediawiki-2021-36125.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}