CVE-2018-1000872

MEDIUM

PyKMIP < 0.8.0 - Denial of Service via Socket Exhaustion

Title source: llm

Description

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/OpenKMIP/PyKMIP/issues/430

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0128

EPSS Percentile 66.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Products (2)

pykmip_project/pykmip < 0.8.0

pypi/pykmip 0 - 0.8.0PyPI

Published Dec 20, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026