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CVE-2016-5180

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Safety vulnerability ID: 26031

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Created at Oct 03, 2016 Updated at Dec 10, 2024
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Advisory

Pycares before 2.1.1 is vulnerable to CVE-2016-5180.
https://github.com/saghul/pycares/commit/0115c819d9ed876999c4f116f8b155ec503e57bc

Affected package

pycares

Latest version: 4.5.0

Python interface for c-ares

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

=============
- cffi: fix setting nameserver in Channel.__init__
- doc: update Sphinx configuration so the docs can be built
- core: backport fix for CVE-2016-5180
- cffi: fix structure definition
- ci: use PyPy 5.4.1 when testing on Travis

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

CRITICAL 9.8

CVSS v3 Details

CRITICAL 9.8
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
NONE
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
HIGH

CVSS v2 Details

HIGH 7.5
Access Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC)
LOW
Authentication (Au)
NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact (I)
PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A)
PARTIAL