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HistoryMay 10, 2023 - 12:00 a.m.

K000133761 : Python vulnerability CVE-2021-3177

2023-05-1000:00:00
my.f5.com
19
python
buffer overflow
remote code execution
floating-point numbers
sprintf unsafely

8.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.038 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.0%

Security Advisory Description

Python 3.x through 3.9.1 has a buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c, which may lead to remote code execution in certain Python applications that accept floating-point numbers as untrusted input, as demonstrated by a 1e300 argument to c_double.from_param. This occurs because sprintf is used unsafely. (CVE-2021-3177)

Impact

An attacker may use this vulnerability to perform remote code execution on affected systems.