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CVE-2018-1000872 json

PyKMIP Denial of service vulnerability

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-gfv6-cj92-g3hx , PYSEC-2018-22 , EUVD-2018-0122

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pykmip 0.8.0
  • pykmip_project pykmip 0.8.0
  • python-pykmip Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.7.0-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000872

  • crowbar OpenStack Cloud 7, Enterprise Storage 4 4.0+git.1551088848.823bcaa3-7.29.2
  • crowbar-ha OpenStack Cloud 7 4.0+git.1556181005.47c643d-4.46.3
  • crowbar-core OpenStack Cloud 7, Enterprise Storage 4 4.0+git.1556285635.ab602dd4d-9.46.3
  • python-PyKMIP OpenStack Cloud 7 0.5.0-3.3.3
  • python-pysaml2 OpenStack Cloud 7 4.0.2-3.6.3
  • crowbar-openstack OpenStack Cloud 7 4.0+git.1554887450.ff7c30c1c-9.51.3
  • openstack-heat-gbp OpenStack Cloud 7 5.1.1~dev1-2.6.3
  • openstack-ceilometer OpenStack Cloud 7 7.1.1~dev4-4.15.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:1450-1SUSE-SU-2019:0391-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1000872 updated cvss 7.5

python-pykmip: DoS due to undefined default timeout for all server sockets

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) python2-pykmip
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky) python2-pykmip
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/OpenKMIP/PyKMIP/issues/430 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pykmip
<0.8.0
0.8.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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