CVE-2009-3622

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback.php in WordPress before 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and server hang) via a long title parameter in conjunction with a charset parameter composed of many comma-separated "UTF-8" substrings, related to the mb_convert_encoding function in PHP.

CVSS v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM

4.3^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps	Broken Link
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/	Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263	Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37088	Third Party Advisory
http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html	Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/	Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/59077	Broken Link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986	Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056	Issue Tracking
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2009-10-23 18:30

Updated : 2017-11-21 18:11

NVD link : CVE-2009-3622

Mitre link : CVE-2009-3622

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2009-3622

JSON object : View

Products Affected

wordpress

wordpress

CWE

CWE-310

Cryptographic Issues

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