Improper Validation of Array Index Affecting python package, versions [,2.7.7)[3.3.0, 3.3.6)[3.4.0, 3.4.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.14% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-2317653
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed24 Aug 2017
  • creditwestonsteimel

Introduced: 24 Aug 2017

CVE-2014-4616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-129  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 2.7.7, 3.3.6, 3.4.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Array Index in the scanstring function which allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1