Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Affecting vte package, versions [,0.76.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-VTE-7231123
  • published 10 Jun 2024
  • disclosed 9 Jun 2024
  • credit Siddharth Dushantha

How to fix?

Upgrade vte to version 0.76.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption through the window resize escape sequence. An attacker can exhaust system memory resources by sending specially crafted escape sequences that manipulate window resizing.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

5.5 medium
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SUSE

7.5 high