CVE-2017-18361

Summary

CVECVE-2017-18361
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-02-01 09:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Pylons Colander through 1.6, the URL validator allows an attacker to potentially cause an infinite loop thereby causing a denial of service via an unclosed parenthesis.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pylonsproject Colander All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fix: url validator by bertjwregeer · Pull Request #323 · Pylons/colander · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Unclosed parenthesis in URL causes infinite loop · Issue #290 · Pylons/colander · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 980869 Python (pip) Security Update for colander (GHSA-rv95-4wxj-6fqq)
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