ikus060/rdiffweb · Security
rdiffweb vulnerable to potential DoS via memory consumption
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-xhw9-4wqq-x67v
- CVE ID
- CVE-2022-3298
- 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
Description
rdiffweb prior to 2.4.8 is vulnerable to a potential Dos attack via an unlimited length "title" field when adding an SSH key. This can result in excess memory consumption, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue is patched in version 2.4.8. There are no known workarounds.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3298 ↗
- https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/commit/626cca1b75b6c587afd4241a9692e8929b1921a5 ↗
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/f9fedf94-41c9-49c4-8552-e407123a44e7 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/rdiffweb/PYSEC-2022-294.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xhw9-4wqq-x67v ↗