CVE-2022-39194 json
An issue was discovered in the MediaWiki through 1.38.2.
published 2022-09-02 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also BIT-mediawiki-2022-39194 , EUVD-2022-41739
- cvss
- 4.9
- version 3.1, NVD
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 1.0%
- EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
An issue was discovered in the MediaWiki through 1.38.2. The community configuration pages for the GrowthExperiments extension could cause a site to become unavailable due to insufficient validation when certain actions (including page moves) were performed.
Patch / fix
- bitnami mediawiki 1.38.3
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2022-39194 updated cvss 3.5
mediawiki: global DoS via site admin
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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 mediawikiaffected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
1.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Exploits and checks
- phabricator.wikimedia.org https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313205 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.1 | 4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| OSV | 3.1 | 4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Affected packages
| ecosystem | package | affected | fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| bitnami | mediawiki | <1.38.3 |
1.38.3 |
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
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phabricator.wikimedia.org
/T313205
exploit, third-party-advisory, web
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nvd.nist.gov
/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39194
web
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2022-39194
- NVD CVE-2022-39194
- OSV BIT-mediawiki-2022-39194
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