CVE-2024-3651
A vulnerability was identified in the kjd/idna library, specifically within the `idna.encode()` function, affecting version 3.6. The issue arises from the function's handling of crafted input strings, which can lead to quadratic complexity and consequently, a denial of service condition. This vulnerability is triggered by a crafted input that causes the `idna.encode()` function to process the input with considerable computational load, significantly increasing the processing time in a quadratic manner relative to the input size.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
25 explicit affected versions
54 explicit affected versions
29 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
A vulnerability was identified in the kjd/idna library, specifically within the `idna.encode()` function, affecting version 3.6. The issue arises from the function's handling of crafted input strings, which can lead to quadratic complexity and consequently, a denial of service condition. This vulnerability is triggered by a crafted input that causes the `idna.encode()` function to process the input with considerable computational load, significantly increasing the processing time in a quadratic manner relative to the input size.
A vulnerability was identified in the kjd/idna library, specifically within the `idna.encode()` function, affecting version 3.6. The issue arises from the function's handling of crafted input strings, which can lead to quadratic complexity and consequently, a denial of service condition. This vulnerability is triggered by a crafted input that causes the `idna.encode()` function to process the input with considerable computational load, significantly increasing the processing time in a quadratic manner relative to the input size.
### Impact A specially crafted argument to the `idna.encode()` function could consume significant resources. This may lead to a denial-of-service. ### Patches The function has been refined to reject such strings without the associated resource consumption in version 3.7. ### Workarounds Domain names cannot exceed 253 characters in length, if this length limit is enforced prior to passing the domain to the `idna.encode()` function it should no longer consume significant resources. This is triggered by arbitrarily large inputs that would not occur in normal usage, but may be passed to the library assuming there is no preliminary input validation by the higher-level application. ### References * https://huntr.com/bounties/93d78d07-d791-4b39-a845-cbfabc44aadb
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/3xxx/CVE-2024-3651.json
- https://github.com/kjd/idna/commit/1d365e17e10d72d0b7876316fc7b9ca0eebdd38d
- https://huntr.com/bounties/93d78d07-d791-4b39-a845-cbfabc44aadb
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/05/msg00006.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4YQUPYH3SVZ5GFF2CDQ55FCM575AZTF2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/F2S5E23N6E52S46KGNYTDFB75LOC4N4D/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/S5IDLLD2IKSIVRBSLB34WTSYGLMWUFWF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ULSC7HBJKXB3BZV367WM5BR6DFEC4Z43/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3651
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jjg7-2v4v-x38h
- https://github.com/kjd/idna
- https://github.com/kjd/idna/security/advisories/GHSA-jjg7-2v4v-x38h
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/idna/PYSEC-2024-60.yaml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4YQUPYH3SVZ5GFF2CDQ55FCM575AZTF2
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/F2S5E23N6E52S46KGNYTDFB75LOC4N4D
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/S5IDLLD2IKSIVRBSLB34WTSYGLMWUFWF
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ULSC7HBJKXB3BZV367WM5BR6DFEC4Z43