CVE-2021-36125

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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).

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-835

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 2, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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