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CVE-2022-1930:
Python vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2022-1930 is a ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) vulnerability discovered in the eth-account PyPI package. The vulnerability was discovered by Denys Vozniuk of the JFrog Security Research Team and was published on August 11, 2022. The vulnerability affects eth-account versions prior to 0.5.9 (JFrog Research).
Technical details
The vulnerability is triggered when an attacker can supply arbitrary input to the encodestructureddata method, leading to an exponential Regular Expression Denial of Service condition. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 5.9, indicating a medium severity level (JFrog Research).
Impact
When successfully exploited, this vulnerability can lead to denial of service conditions in applications using the affected versions of eth-account (JFrog Research).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in eth-account version 0.5.9. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to mitigate the vulnerability (JFrog Research).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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