Resource Exhaustion Affecting python-eventlet package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.79% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PYTHONEVENTLET-5259486
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed6 May 2021

Introduced: 6 May 2021

CVE-2021-21419  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 python-eventlet.

NVD Description

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

Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python. A websocket peer may exhaust memory on Eventlet side by sending very large websocket frames. Malicious peer may exhaust memory on Eventlet side by sending highly compressed data frame. A patch in version 0.31.0 restricts websocket frame to reasonable limits. As a workaround, restricting memory usage via OS limits would help against overall machine exhaustion, but there is no workaround to protect Eventlet process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1