vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5817-1 (CVE-2022-40897): Setuptools vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 23, 2022
Added
Jan 23, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

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.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-pypy-setuptoolsubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-setuptoolsubuntu-pro-upgrade-python3-setuptools
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