hydralabs/pyamf · Security
PyAMF vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE)
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-m7m4-4vm8-55wg
- CVE ID
- CVE-2015-8549
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 7.2 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
PyAMF provides Action Message Format (AMF) support for Python that is compatible with the Adobe Flash Player. It includes integration with Python web frameworks like Django, Pylons, Twisted, SQLAlchemy, web2py and more. XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in PyAMF before 0.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or read arbitrary files via a crafted Action Message Format (AMF) payload.
CWEs
- CWE-611 · Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8549 ↗
- https://github.com/hydralabs/pyamf/pull/58 ↗
- https://github.com/hydralabs/pyamf/releases/tag/v0.8.0 ↗
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-011.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m7m4-4vm8-55wg ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyamf/PYSEC-2020-339.yaml ↗
- https://pypi.org/project/pyamf ↗