CVE-2023-22898 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

An attacker can cause a denial of service in the Pandora analysis library by submitting a deeply nested ZIP archive.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2023-22898?

CVE-2023-22898 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 10 Jan 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

workers/extractor.py in Pandora (aka pandora-analysis/pandora) 1.3.0 allows a denial of service when an attacker submits a deeply nested ZIP archive (aka ZIP bomb).

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-22898?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Circl Pandora.

How do I fix CVE-2023-22898?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-22898 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-22898 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22898 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-m7r3-6mr9-xj8f, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22898.

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