CVE-2018-6389

NameCVE-2018-6389
DescriptionIn WordPress through 4.9.2, unauthenticated attackers can cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by using the large list of registered .js files (from wp-includes/script-loader.php) to construct a series of requests to load every file many times.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wordpress (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye5.7.11+dfsg1-0+deb11u1vulnerable
bookworm, bookworm (security)6.1.6+dfsg1-0+deb12u1vulnerable
sid, trixie6.6.1+dfsg1-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wordpresssource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021
disputed by upstream as best fixed at the server level
patch in progress in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43308
Architectual limitation, marginal impact

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