High

Depth counting error in guard() leading to multiple potential security issues in aioxmpp

  • Disclosed: 04.02.2019
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:19

Impact

Possible remote Denial of Service or Data Injection.

Patches

Patches are available in https://github.com/horazont/aioxmpp/pull/268. They have been backported to the 0.10 release series and 0.10.3 is the first release to contain the fix.

Workarounds

To make the bug exploitable, an error suppressing xso_error_handler is required. By not using xso_error_handlers or not using the suppression function, the vulnerability can be mitigated completely (to our knowledge).

References

The pull request contains a detailed description: https://github.com/horazont/aioxmpp/pull/268

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) aioxmpp < 0.10.3 0.10.3

References

CVSS score 7.4/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-237
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
aioxmpp
Disclosed
04.02.2019
Updated
11.10.2026 11:19

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2019-1 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-6m9g-jr8c-cqw3 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: aioxmpp

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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