Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash salt during initialization. This could make it easy to conduct denial of service attacks against Expat by constructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM. The vulnerability exists in Python versions 3.7.0, 3.6.0 through 3.6.6, 3.5.0 through 3.5.6, 3.4.0 through 3.4.9, 2.7.0 through 2.7.15.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-09-25T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T09:38:13.104Z

Reserved: 2018-07-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-14647

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-25T00:29:00.703

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:53:00.167

Link: CVE-2018-14647

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-09-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-14647 - Bugzilla