CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-26112
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-04-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.7 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
Description
All 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.
Affected configurations
• configobj project configobj
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://github.com/DiffSK/configobj/issues/232 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6BO4RLMYEJODCNUE3DJIIUUFVTPAG6VN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NZHY7B33EFY4LESP2NI4APQUPRROTAZK/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYU4IHVLOTYMFPH7KDOJGKZQR4GKWPFK/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-CONFIGOBJ-3252494 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/DiffSK/configobj/issues/232 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6BO4RLMYEJODCNUE3DJIIUUFVTPAG6VN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NZHY7B33EFY4LESP2NI4APQUPRROTAZK/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYU4IHVLOTYMFPH7KDOJGKZQR4GKWPFK/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-CONFIGOBJ-3252494 Exploit, Third Party Advisory