Skip to content

python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

No package listed— Suggest a package

Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 18, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1060

GHSA ID

GHSA-7hp6-577h-hcgr

Source code

No known source code

Dependabot alerts are not supported on this advisory because it does not have a package from a supported ecosystem with an affected and fixed version.

Learn more about GitHub language support

Loading Checking history
See something to contribute? Suggest improvements for this vulnerability.