CVE-2021-40839
Published
CVSS v3
7.5
HIGH
CVSS v2
5
MEDIUM
Affected
2
PROJECTS
Description
The rencode package through 1.0.6 for Python allows an infinite loop in typecode decoding (such as via ;\x2f\x7f), enabling a remote attack that consumes CPU and memory.
rencode is an object serialization library similar to bencode from the Bittorrent project.
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