Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting python package, versions [,3.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.37% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-2317677
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed17 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-1000158  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 3.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound via the PyString_DecodeEscape function in stringobject.c, resulting in heap-based buffer overflow (and possible arbitrary code execution)

CVSS Scores

version 3.1