CVE-2018-1060 (GCVE-0-2018-1060)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-18 14:00
Modified
2026-10-08 21:03
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
Summary
python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4306 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042001 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00031.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://bugs.python.org/issue32981 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-2/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-6-5-release-candidate-1 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-5-6-release-candidate-1 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1060 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3041 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4307 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-1/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00030.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JSKPGPZQNTAULHW4UH63KGOOUIDE4RRB/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AEZ5IQT7OF7Q2NCGIVABOWYGKO7YU3NJ/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/46PVWY5LFP4BRPG3BVQ5QEEFYBVEXHCK/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1260 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03951en_us x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
[UNKNOWN] python Version: python 2.7.15
Version: python 3.4.9
Version: python 3.5.6
Version: python 3.7.0
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