CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-41495

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2021-12-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-12-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in numpy.sort in NumPy &lt and 1.19 in the PyArray_DescrNew function due to missing return-value validation, which allows attackers to conduct DoS attacks by repetitively creating sort arrays. NOTE: While correct that validation is missing, an error can only occur due to an exhaustion of memory. If the user can exhaust memory, they are already privileged. Further, it should be practically impossible to construct an attack which can target the memory exhaustion to occur at exactly this place

Affected configurations

• numpy numpy (<= 1.19.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References