CVE-2020-15101: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

July 14, 2020 (updated November 18, 2021)

In freewvs, a directory structure of more than nested directories can interrupt a freewvs scan due to Python’s recursion limit and os.walk(). This can be problematic in a case where an administrator scans the dirs of potentially untrusted users.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15101

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