CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-18361

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Feb 01, 2019 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

In Pylons Colander through 1.6, the URL validator allows an attacker to potentially cause an infinite loop thereby causing a denial of service via an unclosed parenthesis.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Colander Pylonsproject * 1.6 (including)
Python-colander Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Python-colander Ubuntu trusty *
Python-colander Ubuntu xenial *

References