7.5 HIGH
- CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
- Confidentiality (C): None (N)
- Integrity (I): None (N)
- Availability (A): High (H)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
- Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
- Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
- Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
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Twisted: Denial of Service (DoS) in twisted.names via Crafted DNS Compression Pointer Chains
Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 26.4.0rc2, the twisted.names module is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack via resource exhaustion during DNS name decompression. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted TCP DNS packet containing deeply chained compression pointers. This flaw bypasses previous loop-prevention logic, causing the single-threaded Twisted reactor to hang while processing millions of recursive lookups, effectively freezing the server. This vulnerability is fixed in 26.4.0rc2.
References
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https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-grgv-6hw6-v9g4 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Affected products
- ==< 26.4.0rc2
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.python312Packages.twisted
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pkgs.python313Packages.twisted
Asynchronous networking framework written in Python
pkgs.python314Packages.twisted
Asynchronous networking framework written in Python
Ignored packages (3)
pkgs.python312Packages.pytest-twisted
None
pkgs.python313Packages.pytest-twisted
Twisted plugin for py.test
pkgs.python314Packages.pytest-twisted
Twisted plugin for py.test