CVE-2023-50570 (Medium) detected in ipaddress-5.3.3.jar - autoclosed

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CVE-2023-50570 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - ipaddress-5.3.3.jar

Library for handling IP addresses, both IPv4 and IPv6

Library home page: https://seancfoley.github.io/IPAddress/

Path to dependency file: /build.gradle

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.github.seancfoley/ipaddress/5.3.3/ddca4fcbe2815dea7983fc9003bae6980c80a756/ipaddress-5.3.3.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ❌ ipaddress-5.3.3.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in base branch: main

Vulnerability Details

An issue in the component IPAddressBitsDivision of IPAddress v5.1.0 leads to an infinite loop. This is disputed because an infinite loop occurs only for cases in which the developer supplies invalid arguments. The product is not intended to always halt for contrived inputs.

Publish Date: 2023-12-29

URL: CVE-2023-50570

CVSS 3 Score Details (5.5)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Local
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: Required
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: High

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

[riysaxen-amzn]

• In build.gradle alerting core, seancfoley library is used

  alerting/alerting/build.gradle

  Line 116 in ffc183f

  implementation "com.github.seancfoley:ipaddress:5.3.3"

• Issue is fixed in version 5.4.1 which is released 2 days ago [link]

[mend-for-github-com]

✔️ This issue was automatically closed by Mend because the vulnerable library in the specific branch(es) was either marked as ignored or it is no longer part of the Mend inventory.