Vulnerability CVE-2022-21716


Published: 2022-03-03

Description:
Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 22.2.0, Twisted SSH client and server implement is able to accept an infinite amount of data for the peer's SSH version identifier. This ends up with a buffer using all the available memory. The attach is a simple as `nc -rv localhost 22 < /dev/zero`. A patch is available in version 22.2.0. There are currently no known workarounds.

Type:

CWE-120

(Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'))

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
Twistedmatrix -> Twisted 

 References:
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/89c395ee794e85a9657b112c4351417850330ef9
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-rv6r-3f5q-9rgx
https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/10284
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/releases/tag/twisted-22.2.0
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00009.html

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