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


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.09% (37th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-RDIFFWEB-3033898
  • published 27 Sep 2022
  • disclosed 27 Sep 2022
  • credit Nehalr777

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.