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)
by @erictapen Activity log
- Created suggestion
- @erictapen ignored package haskellPackages.iCalendar
- @erictapen dismissed
icalendar: Algorithmic Complexity in Equality
icalendar is an RFC 5545 compatible parser and generator of iCalendar files for Python. From 7.1.0 until 7.1.3, the Component equality method in src/icalendar/cal/component.py compares nested subcomponents with two membership loops, and each membership test invokes the same method on child components, causing O(2^n) work relative to nesting depth. Component.from_ical accepts arbitrarily nested BEGIN:VEVENT blocks without a depth limit, so an attacker can submit a sub-kilobyte .ics file containing equal nested subtrees and trigger the cost when an application performs equality, inequality, membership, deduplication, test-assertion, round-trip, or normalization comparisons. Parsing alone does not trigger the issue, and comparisons that differ early short-circuit, but a few hundred bytes can pin a CPU core for minutes or indefinitely, causing denial of service in calendar sync or import endpoints, invite processing, and other comparison paths. This issue is fixed in version 7.1.3.
References
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https://github.com/collective/icalendar/security/advisories/GHSA-cv84-9p8j-fj68 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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https://github.com/collective/icalendar/releases/tag/v7.1.3 x_refsource_MISC
Affected products
- ==>= 7.1.0, < 7.1.3
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.python313Packages.icalendar
Parser/generator of iCalendar files
pkgs.python314Packages.icalendar
Parser/generator of iCalendar files
pkgs.python313Packages.icalendar-searcher
Search, filter and sort iCalendar components
pkgs.python314Packages.icalendar-searcher
Search, filter and sort iCalendar components
Package maintainers
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@olcai Erik Timan <dev@timan.info>
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@dotlambda ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 <nix@dotlambda.de>
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@erictapen Kerstin Humm <kerstin@erictapen.name>