GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-hjf3-r7gw-9rwg feedparser denial of service vulnerability
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2012-2921
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- feedparser
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-611
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• PyPI feedparser: < 5.1.2 → fixed in 5.1.2
Description
Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML ENTITY declaration in a non-ASCII encoded document.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2012-2921 Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2921 advisory
- https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/NEWS?spec=svn706&r=706 web
- https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hjf3-r7gw-9rwg advisory
- https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/feedparser/PYSEC-2012-14.yaml web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120604210617/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53654 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150523060531/http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/advisory/MDVSA-2013:118/?name=MDVSA-2013:118 web
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157 web
- http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371 web