Denial of Service (DoS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package aiohttp Open this link in a new tab


    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.05% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-AIOHTTP-2934978
  • published 24 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 24 Jun 2022
  • credit Unknown

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). It contains an invalid IPv6 URL that could lead to DoS issues.

** DISPUTED ** The repository's maintainers claim this is not a valid vulnerability, as a lot of critical information is missing and there is no proof for this vulnerability.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

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