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Denial of Service in python-ldap

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 19, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 17, 2023

Package

pip python-ldap (pip)

Affected versions

< 3.4.0

Patched versions

3.4.0

Description

python-ldap before 3.4.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service when ldap.schema is used for untrusted schema definitions, because of a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the LDAP schema parser. By sending crafted regex input, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 18, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 19, 2022
Reviewed Jun 20, 2022
Last updated Aug 17, 2023

Severity

Moderate

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
Low
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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.143%
(51st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-46823

GHSA ID

GHSA-qfr5-wjpw-q4c4

Source code

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