CVE-2012-0845

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

SimpleXMLRPCServer.py in SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, 3.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an XML-RPC POST request that contains a smaller amount of data than specified by the Content-Length header.

SimpleXMLRPCServer.py in SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, 3.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an XML-RPC POST request that contains a smaller amount of data than specified by the Content-Length header.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-10-05 21:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-25 11:53:00

Affected Software

Python 0.9.0

0.9.0

Python 0.9.1

0.9.1

Python 1.2

1.2

Python 1.3

1.3

Python 1.5.2

1.5.2

Python 1.6

1.6

Python 1.6.1

1.6.1

Python 2.0

2.0

Python 2.0.1

2.0.1

Python 2.1

2.1

Python 2.1.1

2.1.1

Python 2.1.2

2.1.2

Python 2.1.3

2.1.3

Python 2.2

2.2

Python 2.2.1

2.2.1

Python 2.2.2

2.2.2

Python 2.2.3

2.2.3

Python 2.3.1

2.3.1

Python 2.3.2

2.3.2

Python 2.3.3

2.3.3

Python 2.3.4

2.3.4

Python 2.3.5

2.3.5

Python 2.3.7

2.3.7

Python 2.4.1

2.4.1

Python 2.4.2

2.4.2

Python Python 2.4.3

2.4.3

Python 2.4.4

2.4.4

Python 2.4.6

2.4.6

Python 2.5.1

2.5.1

Python 2.5.2

2.5.2

Python 2.5.3

2.5.3

Python 2.5.4

2.5.4

Python 2.5.6

2.5.6

Python 2.5.150

2.5.150

Python 2.6.1

2.6.1

Python 2.6.2

2.6.2

Python 2.6.3

2.6.3

Python 2.6.4

2.6.4

Python 2.6.5

2.6.5

Python 2.6.6

2.6.6

Python

Python 2.6.2150

2.6.2150

Python 2.6.6150

2.6.6150

Python 2.7.1

2.7.1

Python 2.7.1 Release Candiate 1

2.7.1

Python 2.7.2 Release Candidate 1

2.7.2

Python 2.7.1150

2.7.1150

Python 2.7.2150

2.7.2150

Python 3.0

3.0

Python 3.0.1

3.0.1

Python 3.1

3.1

Python 3.1.1

3.1.1

Python 3.1.2

3.1.2

Python 3.1.3

3.1.3

Python 3.1.4

3.1.4

Python 3.2

3.2

Python 3.2-alpha

3.2

Python 3.2.2150

3.2.2150

References

http://bugs.python.org/issue14001

Exploit

APPLE-SA-2013-10-22-3

openSUSE-SU-2020:0086

http://python.org/download/releases/2.6.8/

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://python.org/download/releases/3.1.5/

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://python.org/download/releases/3.2.3/

Patch, Vendor Advisory

50858

51024

51040

51087

51089

[oss-security] 20120213 Re: CVE Request -- python (SimpleXMLRPCServer): DoS (excessive CPU usage) via malformed XML-RPC / HTTP POST request

1026689

USN-1592-1

USN-1596-1

USN-1613-1

USN-1613-2

USN-1615-1

USN-1616-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789790

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