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CVE-2012-0845

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
05/10/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

SimpleXMLRPCServer.py in SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, 3.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an XML-RPC POST request that contains a smaller amount of data than specified by the Content-Length header.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.6.7 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:1.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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