CVE-2022-40897

Description

Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) setuptools before 65.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via HTML in a crafted package or custom PackageIndex page. There is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py.

How to fix CVE-2022-40897

To remediate CVE-2022-40897, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• Bitnami/setuptools—upgrade to 65.5.1 or later
• —upgrade to 52.0.0-4+deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 52.0.0-4+deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 65.5.1 or later
• —upgrade to 43a9c9bfa6aa626ec2a22540bea28d2ca77964be or later

Is CVE-2022-40897 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (5)

• from 0, < 65.5.1
• from 0, < 52.0.0-4+deb11u1
• from 0, < 52.0.0-4+deb11u1
• from 0, < 65.5.1
• from 0, < 43a9c9bfa6aa626ec2a22540bea28d2ca77964be | from 0, < 65.5.1

CVSS scores

References (25)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-r9hx-vwmv-q579
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40897
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-40897
• PATCHgithub.com/pypa/setuptools
• WEB