CVE-2022-25304

HIGH

asyncua and opcua - Denial of Service via Unlimited Chunk Reception

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

All versions of package opcua; all versions of package asyncua are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to a missing limitation on the number of received chunks - per single session or in total for all concurrent sessions. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending an unlimited number of huge chunks (e.g. 2GB each) without sending the Final closing chunk.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-OPCUA-2988730
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-ASYNCUA-2988731
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/FreeOpcUa/python-opcua/issues/1466

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0106
EPSS Percentile 60.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (4)
asyncua_project/asyncua
opcua_project/opcua
pypi/asyncua 0 - 0.9.96PyPI
pypi/opcua 0PyPI
Published Aug 23, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026