CVE-2018-1000872: PyKMIP Denial of service vulnerability

December 21, 2018 (updated October 23, 2024)

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.

References

github.com/OpenKMIP/PyKMIP
github.com/OpenKMIP/PyKMIP/commit/3a7b880bdf70d295ed8af3a5880bab65fa6b3932
github.com/OpenKMIP/PyKMIP/issues/430
github.com/advisories/GHSA-gfv6-cj92-g3hx
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pykmip/PYSEC-2018-22.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000872

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