Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash salt during initialization. This could make it easy to conduct denial of service attacks against Expat by contructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM.
Find out more about CVE-2018-14647 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.3 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Low |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-python35-python | Affected |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | python27-python | Affected |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-python36-python | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | python | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | python | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | python | Will not fix |
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