Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability in PyKMIP Server

CVE-2018-1000872 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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