CVE-2015-6735

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-17 Code Errors

Publication date:

01/09/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The reset functionality in the TimedMediaHandler extension for MediaWiki does not create a new transcode, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (transcode deletion) by resetting a transcode.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:timedmediahandler_project:timedmediahandler:-:::::mediawiki::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100211
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100211
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05