Exponential ReDoS in cleo leads to denial of service
CVE-2022-42966

5.9MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Cleo

Status
Cleo
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 November 2022

What is CVE-2022-42966?

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the cleo PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the Table.set_rows method

Affected Version(s)

cleo 0 < 1.0.0

References

https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/cleo-redos-xra...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.9
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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