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CVE-2022-40897

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Last updated

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40897

Severity

5.9

Medium

CVSS V3

Description

Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) setuptools before 65.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via HTML in a crafted package or custom PackageIndex page. There is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py.

References

Affected packages


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