GHSA-xhw9-4wqq-x67v

rdiffweb vulnerable to potential DoS via memory consumption

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-3298

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 "title" field when adding an SSH key. This can result in excess memory consumption, 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-2022-3298 advisory
https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/commit/626cca1b75b6c587afd4241a9692e8929b1921a5 web
https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/rdiffweb/PYSEC-2022-294.yaml web
https://huntr.dev/bounties/f9fedf94-41c9-49c4-8552-e407123a44e7 web