VMware Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes update for Python



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2022-45061
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
Other software / Other software solutions

Vendor VMware, Inc

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU69392

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [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/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-45061

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to usage of an unnecessary quadratic algorithm in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted name to he decoder, trigger resource excessive CPU consumption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes: before 2.0.0

CPE2.3 External links

https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/usn-5767-2


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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