CVE-2009-3622

Published Oct 23, 2009

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.3
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-310

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "62D2F1D6-CDAE-4870-8C54-319811E9A93C",
            "versionEndIncluding": "2.8.4"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References