High, CVSS 7.1PyPIAmendedPublished
PyKMIP Denial of service vulnerability
CVE-2018-1000872 · GHSA-gfv6-cj92-g3hx
- Affected
- PyPI pykmip < 0.8.0
- Fixed in
- 0.8.0· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- 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.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.8.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.