CVE-2015-2936

EPSS 1.9%

Published: 4/13/2015Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2936

Description

MediaWiki 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using PBKDF2 for password hashing, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/mediawikifrom 0, < 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2936