CVE-2017-18361 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

In Pylons Colander through 1.6, the URL validator allows an attacker to potentially cause an infinite loop thereby causing a denial of service via an unclosed parenthesis.

Published: 2019-02-01

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:pylonsproject:colander:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2019-0030	In Pylons Colander through 1.6, the URL validator allows an attacker to potentially cause an infinite loop thereby causing a denial of service via an unclosed parenthesis.
Github GHSA	GHSA-rv95-4wxj-6fqq	Pylons Colander Denial of Service vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00127.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/Pylons/colander/issues/290
https://github.com/Pylons/colander/pull/323

History

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Subscriptions

Pylonsproject Colander

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-02-01T09:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:20:50.872Z

Reserved: 2019-02-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-18361

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-02-01T09:29:00.233

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:19:55.883

Link: CVE-2017-18361

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-835

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