Vulnerability CVE-2018-14647
Published: 2018-09-24   Modified: 2018-09-25

Description:
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. Python 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 2.7 are believed to be vulnerable.

Type:

CWE-909

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Python -> Python 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105396
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041740
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1260
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2030
https://bugs.python.org/issue34623
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14647
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00022.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00023.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RBJCB2HWOJLP3L7CUQHJHNBHLSVOXJE5/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4306
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4307
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