Vulnerabilities in pkg:pypi/rdiffweb

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-5v95-j4rr-6f3c",
  "modified" : "2026-05-29T20:49:26Z",
  "published" : "2022-09-27T00:00:17Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2022-3290" ],
  "summary" : "rdiffweb's unlimited username field length can lead to DoS",
  "details" : "rdiffweb prior to 2.4.8 is vulnerable to a potential Dos attack via an unlimited length \"username\" field. This can result in excess memory consumption, or memory corruption, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue is patched in version 2.4.8. There are no known workarounds.",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
  }, {
    "type" : "CVSS_V4",
    "score" : "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "PyPI",
      "name" : "rdiffweb"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "2.4.8"
      } ]
    } ]
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3290"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/commit/667657c6fe2b336c90be37f37fb92f65df4feee3"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/rdiffweb/PYSEC-2022-292.yaml"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/rdiffweb/PYSEC-2022-43184.yaml"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://huntr.dev/bounties/d8b8519d-96a5-484c-8141-624c54290bf5"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-130" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2022-09-30T00:51:30Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2022-09-26T19:15:00Z"
  }
}