What is CVE-2018-1000872?

CVE-2018-1000872 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pykmip Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-12-20.

How severe is CVE-2018-1000872?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Pykmip Project

CVE-2018-1000872

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.013 (67.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Pykmip_project Pykmip
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-1000872?: CVE-2018-1000872 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pykmip Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-12-20.
How severe is CVE-2018-1000872?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.