Vulnerability identifier: #VU79836

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.9 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:U/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26112

CWE-ID: CWE-1333

Exploitation vector: Network

Exploit availability: No

Vulnerable software:
configobj
Other software / Other software solutions

Vendor: Differently Sized Kittens

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.

Mitigation
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

configobj: 5.0.0 - 5.0.8

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External links
http://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-CONFIGOBJ-3252494
http://github.com/DiffSK/configobj/issues/232

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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.