CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-1060

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
5.04%

92th percentile - higher than 92% of all known CVEs

Summary

Python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely cause a denial of service by triggering excessive resource consumption while processing POP3 responses. Risk for applications using pop3lib to communicate with mail servers.

Recommendation

Update Python to version 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6, 3.6.5, or 3.7.0 (or later). Avoid processing untrusted data from POP3 servers without appropriate limits.

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Original NVD description (English source)

python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS