CVE-2021-29510CWE-835

Use of "infinity" as an input to datetime and date fields causes infinite loop in pydantic

Low · published May 13, 2021

CVSS v3.1
3.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
61.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Pydantic is a data validation and settings management using Python type hinting. In affected versions passing either `'infinity'`, `'inf'` or `float('inf')` (or their negatives) to `datetime` or `date` fields causes validation to run forever with 100% CPU usage (on one CPU). Pydantic has been patched with fixes available in the following versions: v1.8.2, v1.7.4, v1.6.2. All these versions are available on pypi(https://pypi.org/project/pydantic/#history), and will be available on conda-forge(https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pydantic) soon. See the changelog(https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/) for details. If you absolutely can't upgrade, you can work around this risk using a validator(https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/usage/validators/) to catch these values. This is not an ideal solution (in particular you'll need a slightly different function for datetimes), instead of a hack like this you should upgrade pydantic. If you are not using v1.8.x, v1.7.x or v1.6.x and are unable to upgrade to a fixed version of pydantic, please create an issue at https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/issues requesting a back-port, and we will endeavour to release a patch for earlier versions of pydantic.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.3 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00975 · 61.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2021-05-13T18:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 MAY 18:55Z
    Use of "infinity" as an input to datetime and date fields causes infinite loop in pydantic
    cvelistv5