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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2020-29651

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

A Denial of Service via regular expression in the "py.path.svnwc" component of Py (aka python-py) before 1.10.0 could be used by attackers to cause a compute-time denial of service attack by supplying malicious input to the blame functionality.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published