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CVE-2021-21419: PYSEC-2021-12 - Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python. A websocket peer may exhaust memory on Eventlet side by sending very large websocket

CVE-2021-21419 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2021-05-07

Technologies: eventlet (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Executive brief

Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python. A websocket peer may exhaust memory on Eventlet side by sending very large websocket frames. Malicious peer may exhaust memory on Eventlet side by sending highly compressed data frame. A patch in version 0.31.0 restricts websocket frame to reasonable limits. As a workaround, restricting memory usage via OS limits would help against overall machine exhaustion, but there is no workaround to protect Eventlet process.

Affected products

  • PyPI eventlet

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