cvxopt/cvxopt · Security
Incorrect Comparison in cvxopt
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-8rh6-h94m-vj54
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-41500
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Incomplete string comparison vulnerability exits in cvxopt.org cvxop <= 1.2.6 in APIs (cvxopt.cholmod.diag, cvxopt.cholmod.getfactor, cvxopt.cholmod.solve, cvxopt.cholmod.spsolve), which allows attackers to conduct Denial of Service attacks by construct fake Capsule objects.
CWEs
- CWE-697 · Incorrect Comparison
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41500 ↗
- https://github.com/cvxopt/cvxopt/issues/193 ↗
- https://github.com/cvxopt/cvxopt/commit/d5a21cf1da62e4269176384b1ff62edac5579f94 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8rh6-h94m-vj54 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/cvxopt/PYSEC-2021-870.yaml ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CXTPM3DGVYTYQ54OFCMXZVWVOMR7JM2D ↗