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SCA: security update for mediawiki/core (GHSA-c8wv-qwwc-6j73)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434441

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query
 processing time). Visiting Special:Contributions can sometimes result in a long running SQL query because
 PoolCounter protection is mishandled. (CVE-2021-41800)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c8wv-qwwc-6j73

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434441

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41800

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41800

cwe: CWE-770