CVE-2022-21716CWE-120

Buffer Overflow in Twisted

High · published March 3, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
4%
Percentile
89.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 22.2.0, Twisted SSH client and server implement is able to accept an infinite amount of data for the peer's SSH version identifier. This ends up with a buffer using all the available memory. The attach is a simple as `nc -rv localhost 22 < /dev/zero`. A patch is available in version 22.2.0. There are currently no known workarounds.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03510 · 89.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Published
2022-03-03T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 MAR 00:00Z
    Buffer Overflow in Twisted
    cvelistv5