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CVE-2018-1060
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.…
Medium4.3EPSS 5.0%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.0% · top 7.7% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
References (22)
- DSA-4306 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1042001 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180926 [SECURITY] [DLA 1520-1] python3.4 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugs.python.org/issue32981 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3817-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-6-5-release-candidate-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-5-6-release-candidate-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3505 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1060 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3041 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-4307 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3817-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180925 [SECURITY] [DLA 1519-1] python2.7 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-6e1938a3c5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-cf725dd20b (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-51f1e08207 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHBA-2019:0327 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1260 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03951en_us (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3725 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0086 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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