Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2022-40897 |
CWE-ID | CWE-185 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
setuptools Other software / Other software solutions |
Vendor | Python Packaging Authority |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU71379
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40897
CWE-ID:
CWE-185 - Incorrect Regular Expression
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Install update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionssetuptools: 0.6 - 65.5.0
External linkshttp://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/fe8a98e696241487ba6ac9f91faa38ade939ec5d/setuptools/package_index.py#L200
http://pyup.io/posts/pyup-discovers-redos-vulnerabilities-in-top-python-packages/
http://github.com/pypa/setuptools/compare/v65.5.0...v65.5.1
http://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/43a9c9bfa6aa626ec2a22540bea28d2ca77964be
http://pyup.io/vulnerabilities/CVE-2022-40897/52495/
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.