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CVE-2022-40899

high

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.

References

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-12-23

Updated: 2025-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High