ikus060/rdiffweb · Security
rdiffweb's unlimited username field length can lead to DoS
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-5v95-j4rr-6f3c
- CVE ID
- CVE-2022-3290
- 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
rdiffweb prior to 2.4.8 is vulnerable to a potential Dos attack via an unlimited length "username" field. This can result in excess memory consumption, or memory corruption, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue is patched in version 2.4.8. There are no known workarounds.
CWEs
- CWE-130 · Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3290 ↗
- https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/commit/667657c6fe2b336c90be37f37fb92f65df4feee3 ↗
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/d8b8519d-96a5-484c-8141-624c54290bf5 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/rdiffweb/PYSEC-2022-292.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/rdiffweb/PYSEC-2022-43184.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5v95-j4rr-6f3c ↗