CVE-2012-0845 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-0845

SimpleXMLRPCServer.py in SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3,...

Vulnerability Description

SimpleXMLRPCServer.py in SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, 3.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an XML-RPC POST request that contains a smaller amount of data than specified by the Content-Length header.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

python
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5.2, 1.6, 1.6.1, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.7, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.6, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.6, 2.5.150, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.2150, 2.6.6150, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.1150, 2.7.2150, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.2, 3.2.2150

Timeline

Official Publish: October 5th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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