Resource Management Errors Affecting python package, versions [,2.6.8)[2.7.0, 2.7.3)[3.1.0, 3.1.5)[3.2.0, 3.2.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
24.52% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-2317702
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed5 Oct 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Oct 2012

CVE-2012-0845  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, 3.2.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. SimpleXMLRPCServer.py in SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, 3.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an XML-RPC POST request that contains a smaller amount of data than specified by the Content-Length header.

CVSS Scores

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