Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting rdiffweb package, versions [,2.4.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-RDIFFWEB-3033898
  • published27 Sept 2022
  • disclosed27 Sept 2022
  • creditNehalr777

Introduced: 27 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-3298  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rdiffweb to version 2.4.8 or higher.

Overview

rdiffweb is an A web interface to rdiff-backup repositories.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to insufficient checks in user input parameters, by allowing an attacker to set a title with long string while adding a SSH key, leading to memory corruption/possible DOS attack.

CVSS Scores

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