Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting pypdf2 package, versions [,2.10.6)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PYPDF2-3186343
- published 2 Jan 2023
- disclosed 2 Jan 2023
- credit Unknown
How to fix?
Upgrade PyPDF2 to version 2.10.6 or higher.
Overview
PyPDF2 is an A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming PDF files
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to invalid object. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible when reading the metadata.
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
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