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Double Free Affecting psutil package, versions [0,5.6.7)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.32% (71st percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
7 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PSUTIL-483082
  • published 12 Nov 2019
  • disclosed 11 Nov 2019
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 11 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-18874 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-415 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade psutil to version 5.6.7 or higher.

Overview

psutil is a cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free. This occurs because of refcount mishandling within a while or for loop that converts system data into a Python object.