CVE-2014-4616

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

24/08/2017

Last modified:

20/04/2025

Description

Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.90 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

5.90

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	2.7.0 (including)	2.7.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.0.0 (including)	3.2.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.3.0 (including)	3.3.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.4.0 (including)	3.4.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:simplejson_project:simplejson::::::python::*		2.6.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse_project:opensuse:12.3:::::::*

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CVE-2014-4616

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools