PyKMIP Denial of service vulnerability

2018-12-2117:46:39

CWE-400

GitHub Advisory Database

github.com

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

0.033 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.3%

JSON

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.