CVE-2022-40899

Published: Dec 23, 2022Modified: Apr 15, 2025

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

An issue discovered in Python Charmers Future 0.18.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted Set-Cookie header from malicious web server.

Affected (1)

Products: Pythoncharmers: Python Future

Pythoncharmers

1 product

Python Future

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Pythoncharmers Python Future	Up to 0.18.2

Related CWEs

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (10)

https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/blob/master/src/future/backports/http/cookiejar.py#L215

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/pull/610

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17157

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory

https://pypi.org/project/future/

Source: cve@mitre.org

ProductThird Party Advisory

https://pyup.io/posts/pyup-discovers-redos-vulnerabilities-in-top-python-packages/

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitVendor Advisory

https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/blob/master/src/future/backports/http/cookiejar.py#L215