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phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta Unauthenticated DoS via API Pagination

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Severity
high
Date
Affecting

  • phpMyFAQ >= 4.2.0-alpha, < 4.2.0-beta

CWE
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS
8.7
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
R4yGM
Description
phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the unauthenticated faqs and search API endpoints. Attackers can send concurrent GET requests that load and process all database records into PHP memory, exhausting CPU and memory to crash the server.

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