GHSA-9p9m-jm8w-94p2MediumCVSS 5.3
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) and Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in eventlet
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
A websocket peer may exhaust memory on Eventlet side by sending very large websocket frames. Malicious peer may exhaust memory on Eventlet side by sending highly compressed data frame.
Patches
Version 0.31.0 restricts websocket frame to reasonable limits.
Workarounds
Restricting memory usage via OS limits would help against overall machine exhaustion. No workaround to protect Eventlet process.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue in eventlet
- Contact current maintainers. At 2021-03: [email protected] or https://t.me/temotor
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/eventlet:>= 0.10, < 0.31.0
🔗 References (7)
- https://github.com/eventlet/eventlet/security/advisories/GHSA-9p9m-jm8w-94p2
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21419
- https://github.com/eventlet/eventlet/commit/1412f5e4125b4313f815778a1acb4d3336efcd07
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/eventlet/PYSEC-2021-12.yaml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2WJFSBPLCNSZNHYQC4QDRDFRTEZRMD2L
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/R5JZP4LZOSP7CUAM3GIRW6PIAWKH5VGB
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p9m-jm8w-94p2