CVE-2022-40896

Publication date 19 July 2023

Last updated 26 November 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

A ReDoS issue was discovered in pygments/lexers/smithy.py in pygments through 2.15.0 via SmithyLexer.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
pygments 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.11.2+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal Ignored code not present
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored code not present
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

hlibk

This CVE is comprised of Smithy, SQL/SQL+Jinja, and Java properties files ReDoS vulnerabilities. Smithy appears to only be included in jammy and above, while SQL/SQL+Jinja appears to not be included in jammy and below, and fixed by upstream in later versions. Java properties issue appears to be vulnerable for bionic, focal, and jammy, but the fix requires a new feature release and older versions are not maintained by upstream.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
pygments

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H