Resource exhaustion in Feedgenerator - CVE-2020-5227
Published: February 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU24823
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5227
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Feedgenerator
Fedora
python-feedgen
Fedora
python-feedgen
How to mitigate CVE-2020-5227
Install updates from vendor's website.
Feedgenerator - update to 0.9.0
python-feedgen - update to 0.9.0-1.fc31
python-feedgen - update to 0.9.0-1.fc31