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CVE-2018-14647

high · 7.5

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.

7.5
CVSS
10.9%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2018-09-25
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-335CWE-665CWE-909

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
pythonpython>= 2.7.0, <= 2.7.15
pythonpython>= 3.4.0, <= 3.4.9
pythonpython>= 3.5.0, <= 3.5.6
pythonpython>= 3.6.0, <= 3.6.6
pythonpython3.7.0
canonicalubuntu_linux12.04
canonicalubuntu_linux14.04
canonicalubuntu_linux16.04
canonicalubuntu_linux18.04
debiandebian_linux8.0
debiandebian_linux9.0
fedoraprojectfedora30
opensuseleap15.1
redhatenterprise_linux_desktop7.0
redhatenterprise_linux_server7.0
redhatenterprise_linux_workstation7.0

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References

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