ALPINE-CVE-2018-14647

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CVE-2018-14647
Published: 25 Sept 2018, 00:29
Last modified:19 Nov 2025, 06:13

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

25 Sept 2018, 00:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
19 Nov 2025, 06:13
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•python2

    < 2.7.16-r0 | < 2.7.16-r0 | < 2.7.16-r0 | < 2.7.15-r2 | < 2.7.15-r2 | < 2.7.16-r0

  • alpine•python3

    < 3.6.8-r0 | < 3.6.8-r0 | < 3.6.8-r0

References (1)