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CVE-2021-31556

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1284

Description

An issue was discovered in the Oauth extension for MediaWiki through 1.35.2. MWOAuthConsumerSubmitControl.php does not ensure that the length of an RSA key will fit in a MySQL blob.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33, 34, 35
• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.35.2

References

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I13ff0350a9a0a3cd5ab3e1f82dd0d8d9c13cf9e9
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CJDYJQWT43GBD6GNQ4OW7JOZ6WQ6DZTN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MDBPECBWN6LWNSWIQMVXK6PP4YFEUYHA/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNEAI2T3Y65I55ZB6UE6RMC662RZTGRX/
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277380
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I13ff0350a9a0a3cd5ab3e1f82dd0d8d9c13cf9e9
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CJDYJQWT43GBD6GNQ4OW7JOZ6WQ6DZTN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MDBPECBWN6LWNSWIQMVXK6PP4YFEUYHA/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNEAI2T3Y65I55ZB6UE6RMC662RZTGRX/
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277380

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