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CVE-2020-14422

Public on 2020-06-18
Modified on 2023-06-23
Description

A vulnerability was found in the way the ipaddress python module computes hash values in the IPv4Interface and IPv6Interface classes. This flaw allows an attacker to create many dictionary entries, due to the performance of a dictionary containing the IPv4Interface or IPv6Interface objects, possibly resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python-ipaddress 2023-07-20 17:30 ALAS2-2023-2174
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python-pip 2023-07-17 17:40 ALAS2-2023-2151
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python3 2020-09-01 00:40 ALAS2-2020-1484
Amazon Linux 1 python34 2020-09-03 22:08 ALAS-2020-1432
Amazon Linux 1 python35 2020-09-03 22:08 ALAS-2020-1432
Amazon Linux 1 python36 2020-09-03 22:08 ALAS-2020-1432
Amazon Linux 2 - Python3.8 Extra python38 2023-08-21 21:00 ALAS2PYTHON3.8-2023-008

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H