Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-pykmip  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PYTHONPYKMIP-9895620
  • published29 Apr 2025
  • disclosed24 Apr 2018

Introduced: 24 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-1000872  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-pykmip package and not the python-pykmip package as distributed by RHEL.

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.