GHSA-5v95-j4rr-6f3c

rdiffweb's unlimited username field length can lead to DoS

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-3290

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	rdiffweb	< 2.4.8	2.4.8

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

rdiffweb prior to 2.4.8 is vulnerable to a potential Dos attack via an unlimited length "username" field. This can result in excess memory consumption, or memory corruption, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue is patched in version 2.4.8. There are no known workarounds.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3290 advisory
https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/commit/667657c6fe2b336c90be37f37fb92f65df4feee3 web
https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/rdiffweb/PYSEC-2022-292.yaml web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/rdiffweb/PYSEC-2022-43184.yaml web
https://huntr.dev/bounties/d8b8519d-96a5-484c-8141-624c54290bf5 web