CVE-2021-41500

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Published at: - 17-12-2021 10:15

Last modified: - 01-04-2022 05:22

Total changes: - 5

Description

Incomplete string comparison vulnerability exits in cvxopt.org cvxop <= 1.2.6 in APIs (cvxopt.cholmod.diag, cvxopt.cholmod.getfactor, cvxopt.cholmod.solve, cvxopt.cholmod.spsolve), which allows attackers to conduct Denial of Service attacks by construct fake Capsule objects.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

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

Low

Attack complexity

Network

Attack vector

High

Availability

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Privileges required

Unchanged

Scope

None

User interaction

7.5

Base score

3.9

3.6

Exploitability score

Impact score

Verification logic

vendor=cvxopt_project AND product=cvxopt AND target_software=python AND versionEndIncluding=1.2.6

vendor=fedoraproject AND product=fedora AND version=34

Reference

https://github.com/cvxopt/cvxopt/issues/193
FEDORA-2022-0b587f0fa9-Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

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