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 severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python-ipaddress 2023-07-20 ALAS2-2023-2174 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 python-pip Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python-pip 2023-07-17 ALAS2-2023-2151 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python3 2020-09-01 ALAS2-2020-1484 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.11 Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.9 Not Affected
Amazon Linux 1 python34 2020-09-03 ALAS-2020-1432 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 python35 2020-09-03 ALAS-2020-1432 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 python36 2020-09-03 ALAS-2020-1432 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Python3.8 Extra python38 2023-08-21 ALAS2PYTHON3.8-2023-008 Fixed

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