Launch Week Day 1: Announcing Security Design Review
HIGH 7.5 PyPI

rdiffweb's unlimited username field length can lead to DoS

GHSA-5v95-j4rr-6f3c · CVE-2022-3290 · PYSEC-2022-292 · PYSEC-2022-43184

Published · Modified

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.

Ready to move

Start Securing

Free, no credit card | First findings in minutes