CVE-2022-40899

Aliases:GHSA-v3c5-jqr6-7qm8PYSEC-2022-42991
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 12
Modified
Published: 22 Dec 2022, 00:00
Last modified:15 Apr 2025, 15:52

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
40/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.43% LOW
0% probability +0.05%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

22 Dec 2022, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
15 Apr 2025, 15:52
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue discovered in Python Charmers Future 0.18.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted Set-Cookie header from malicious web server.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.43%• Percentile: 63%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

    The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

Affected Systems

  • PyPI•future

    < 0.18.3

  • pythoncharmers•python-future

    ≤ 0.18.2

References (11)