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pypa/setuptools vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 23, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 23, 2024

Package

pip setuptools (pip)

Affected versions

< 65.5.1

Patched versions

65.5.1

Description

Python Packaging Authority (PyPA)'s setuptools is a library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects. Setuptools version 65.5.0 and earlier could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by fetching malicious HTML from a PyPI package or custom PackageIndex page due to a vulnerable Regular Expression in package_index. This has been patched in version 65.5.1.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 23, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 23, 2022
Reviewed Dec 27, 2022
Last updated Oct 23, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.532%
(78th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-40897

GHSA ID

GHSA-r9hx-vwmv-q579

Source code

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