CVE-2018-1061

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1061
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1061.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-1061
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-06-19T12:29:00Z
Modified
2025-02-14T07:41:03Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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 the difflib.ISLINEJUNK method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python/cpython

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python/cpython
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed