Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting rdiffweb package, versions [,2.5.0a7)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.09% (36th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-RDIFFWEB-3037318
  • published 30 Sep 2022
  • disclosed 30 Sep 2022
  • credit Nehalr777

How to fix?

Upgrade rdiffweb to version 2.5.0a7 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 via Fullname parameter, by allowing an attacker to set a long string name, leading to crashes.