CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-62666

MediumCVSS 6.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.44%

36th percentile - higher than 36% of all known CVEs

Summary

The CirrusSearch extension for MediaWiki has an allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability, enabling HTTP DoS. This affects versions from master before 1.43.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exhaust server resources, causing denial of service and making the application unavailable to legitimate users.

Recommendation

Update the CirrusSearch extension to version 1.43 or later to eliminate the vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - CirrusSearch Extension allows HTTP DoS.This issue affects Mediawiki - CirrusSearch Extension: from master before 1.43.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS