CVE-2018-14647

7.5

HIGHCVSS v3

Published

September 25, 2018

CVSS v2

5 MEDIUM

Affected

10 projects

Assigned by

Red Hat

Severity scale

010

Description

Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash salt during initialization. This could make it easy to conduct denial of service attacks against Expat by constructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM. The vulnerability exists in Python versions 3.7.0, 3.6.0 through 3.6.6, 3.5.0 through 3.5.6, 3.4.0 through 3.4.9, 2.7.0 through 2.7.15.

Python

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>= 3.5.0, <= 3.5.6, >= 2.7.0, <= 2.7.15, = 3.7.0, >= 3.4.0, <= 3.4.9, >= 3.6.0, <= 3.6.6NVD

Python

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