Vulnerability in Python

CVE-2012-0845

SimpleXMLRPCServer.py in SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, 3.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an XML-RPC POST request that contains a smaller amount of data than specified by the Content-Length header.

EPSS: 0.054 (91.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Python — versions 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 1.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References