Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting rdiffweb package, versions [,2.8.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-RDIFFWEB-5819549
  • published4 Aug 2023
  • disclosed3 Aug 2023
  • creditNehal Pillai

Introduced: 3 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-4138  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rdiffweb to version 2.8.1 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. There is no rate limit on the send report feature on the https://rdiffweb-dev.ikus-soft.com/prefs/notification endpoint, which allows an attacker to spam the victim's mailbox.

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