CVE-2024-34506: fedoraproject fedora Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-34506 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 05-05-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 04-11-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage.php in MediaWiki before 1.39.7, 1.40.x before 1.40.3, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. If a user with the necessary rights to move the page opens Special:MovePage for a page with tens of thousands of subpages, then the page will exceed the maximum request time, leading to a denial of service.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.90%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
59%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.90% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (phabricator.wikimedia.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- mediawiki< 1:1.39.7-1 | < 1:1.35.13-1+deb11u2 | < 1:1.39.7-1~deb12u1
Fedoraproject1 product
- fedoraEOL40
Mediawiki1 product
- mediawiki< 1.39.7 | ≥ 1.40.0, < 1.40.3 | ≥ 1.41.0, < 1.41.1
Ubuntu1 product
- mediawikiAll versions (No fix recorded)
4 vendors · 4 products
