CVE-2018-25246

Impact

Wikipedia 12.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting oversized input through the search functionality. Attackers can paste a large buffer of repeated characters into the search bar to trigger an application crash.

Affected packages

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Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45324
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/wikipedia/9wzdncrfhwm4?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab