CVE-2021-21419
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) and Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in eventlet
02 Description
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) and Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in eventlet
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.79% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 78.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-05-07 14:30Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 18:09Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-12-22
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.3)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 0dcb9c898e9d2852648891c2eb235d85faa189f6511dd5d1b59cff691af39791
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/eventlet/eventlet/security/advisories/GHSA-9p9m-jm8w-94p2
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-9fde3d7ab1https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R5JZP4LZOSP7CUAM3GIRW6PIAWKH5VGB/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-d5915c247bhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2WJFSBPLCNSZNHYQC4QDRDFRTEZRMD2L/
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- python-eventlet Fixed in 0.31.0-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- python-eventlet Fixed in 0.26.1-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- python-eventlet Fixed in 0.26.1-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- python-eventlet Fixed in 0.26.1-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- python-eventlet Fixed in 0.25.1-2ubuntu1.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.