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CGA-pr8m-w2c3-jgf2

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https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-pr8m-w2c3-jgf2
Package

python-3.7

Repository

Chainguard

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Under investigation
Aliases
  • CVE-2022-40897
  • GHSA-r9hx-vwmv-q579

Severity

Unknown

Summary

pypa/setuptools vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Description

Python Packaging Authority (PyPA)'s setuptools is a library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects. Setuptools version 65.5.0 and earlier could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by fetching malicious HTML from a PyPI package or custom PackageIndex page due to a vulnerable Regular Expression in package_index. This has been patched in version 65.5.1.

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