CVE-2023-26112

Summary

CVECVE-2023-26112
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-04-03 05:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 04:09:00 UTC
DescriptionAll versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer, putting the offending value in a server side configuration file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-1333

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Configobj Project Configobj All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: python-configobj-5.0.8-6.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
A ReDoS vulnerability exists in ./src/configobj/validate.py · Issue #232 · DiffSK/configobj · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: python-configobj-5.0.8-6.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: python-configobj-5.0.8-6.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in configobj | CVE-2023-26112 | Snyk MISC security.snyk.io
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 284636 Fedora Security Update for python (FEDORA-2023-62baa45349)
  • 284637 Fedora Security Update for python (FEDORA-2023-27b41bb133)
  • 285209 Fedora Security Update for python (FEDORA-2023-64b2965699)
  • 355629 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python-configobj : ALAS2023-2023-254
  • 355770 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python-configobj : ALAS2-2023-2188
  • 673608 EulerOS Security Update for python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1292)
  • 673628 EulerOS Security Update for python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1094)
  • 673721 EulerOS Security Update for python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1161)
  • 674101 EulerOS Security Update for python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1070)
  • 674143 EulerOS Security Update for python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1514)
  • 674155 EulerOS Security Update for python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1493)
  • 691118 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for py39 (de970aef-d60e-466b-8e30-1ae945a047f1)

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