CVE-2022-28201

Severity Score

4.4

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.

Se ha detectado un problema en MediaWiki versiones anteriores a 1.35.6, 1.36.x anteriores a 1.36.4 y 1.37.x anteriores a 1.37.2. Los usuarios con el permiso editinterface pueden desencadenar una recursión infinita, porque un interwiki local desnudo es manejado inapropiadamente para el mensaje de la página principal

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Multiple

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-03-30 CVE Reserved
2022-09-19 CVE Published
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2024-08-03 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html	Mailing List

URL	Date	SRC
https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.html	2024-08-03

URL	Date	SRC
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571	2022-11-03

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246	2022-11-03

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				< 1.35.6 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version " < 1.35.6"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				>= 1.36.0 < 1.36.4 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version " >= 1.36.0 < 1.36.4"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				>= 1.37.0 < 1.37.2 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version " >= 1.37.0 < 1.37.2"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				10.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "10.0"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				11.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "11.0"		-		Affected