A denial of service flaw was found in the way Python's SSL module implementation performed matching of certain certificate names. A remote attacker able to obtain a valid certificate that contained multiple wildcard characters could use this flaw to issue a request to validate such a certificate, resulting in excessive consumption of CPU.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | python-tornado | 2015-05-05 21:31 | ALAS-2015-521 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 2.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |