Resource Exhaustion Affecting python3-ecdsa package, versions <0:0.13.3-2.el7pc


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PYTHON3ECDSA-5362449
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed5 May 2021

Introduced: 5 May 2021

CVE-2021-22902  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 python3-ecdsa to version 0:0.13.3-2.el7pc or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:4702.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3-ecdsa package and not the python3-ecdsa package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The actionpack ruby gem (a framework for handling and responding to web requests in Rails) before 6.0.3.7, 6.1.3.2 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Mime type parser of Action Dispatch. Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause the mime type parser in Action Dispatch to do catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression engine.

CVSS Scores

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