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CVE-2018-1000872

PyKMIP Denial of service vulnerability

6.5 MediumFix available

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

1.29%Up 0.9 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.5

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Record
CVE-2018-1000872
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Record
CVE-2018-1000872
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2018-0122 No score

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Record
EUVD-2018-0122
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-gfv6-cj92-g3hx 7.1

PyKMIP Denial of service vulnerability

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Record
GHSA-gfv6-cj92-g3hx
CVSS 4.0
7.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.5

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Record
CVE-2018-1000872
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000872 6.5

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000872
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVGHSA-gfv6-cj92-g3hx 7.1

PyKMIP Denial of service vulnerability

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Record
GHSA-gfv6-cj92-g3hx
CVSS 4.0
7.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000872 6.5

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000872
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVPYSEC-2018-22 No score

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can be made unavailable by one or more clients opening all of the available sockets. This attack appear to be exploitable via A client or clients open sockets with the server and then never close them. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.8.0.

Record
PYSEC-2018-22
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2019:0391-1 No score

Security update for python-PyKMIP

This update for python-PyKMIP fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

  • CVE-2018-1000872: Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability which was caused by exhausting the available sockets. To mitigate the issue server socket timeout was decreased (bsc#1120767).
Record
SUSE-SU-2019:0391-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2019:1450-1 No score

Security update for Cloud7 packages

This update provides fixes for the following packages issues:

caasp-openstack-heat-templates:

  • Update to version 1.0+git.1553079189.3bf8922:
    • SCRD-2813 Add support for CPI parameters
  • Update to version 1.0+git.1547562889.43707e7:
    • Switch LB protocol from HTTP to HTTPS

crowbar:

  • Update to version 4.0+git.1551088848.823bcaa3:
    • install-chef-suse: filter comments from authorized_keys file

crowbar-core:

  • Update to version 4.0+git.1556285635.ab602dd4d:
    • network: run wicked ifdown for interface cleanup (bsc#1063535)
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1554931881.d98412e0e:
    • Fix cloud-mkcloud9-job-backup-restore (SCRD-7126)
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1552239940.5bc9aaac4:
    • crowbar: Do not rely on Chef::Util::FileEdit to write the file (bsc#1127752)
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1550493400.9787ea9ad:
    • upgrade: Delay status switch after upgrade ends
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1549474445.d9a35cf52:
    • fix hound warning
    • Support RAID 0
  • Packaged default upgrade timeouts file
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1549136953.afcde921f:
    • apache2: enable sslsessioncache
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1548859099.0edbbfdc2:
    • upgrade: Add default upgrade timeouts file

crowbar-ha:

  • Update to version 4.0+git.1556181005.47c643d:
    • pacemaker: wait more for founder if SBD is configured (SCRD-8462)
    • pacemaker: don't check cluster members on founder (SCRD-8462)
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1554215159.8a42a71:
    • improve galera HA setup (bsc#1122875)

crowbar-openstack:

  • Update to version 4.0+git.1554887450.ff7c30c1c:
    • neutron: Added option to use L3 HA with Keepalived
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1554843756.5622551da:
    • ironic: Fix regression in helper
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1554814630.ec3c89f25:
    • ceilometer: Install package which contains cron file (bsc#1130414)
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1551459192.89433e13b:
    • rabbit: fix mirroring regex
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1550582615.f6b433ec7:
    • ceilometer: Use pacemaker to handle expirer cron link (bsc#1113107)
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1550262335.9667fa580:
    • mysql: Do not set a custom logfile for mysqld (bsc#1112767)
    • mysql: create .my.cnf in root home directory for mysql cmdline
  • Update to version 4.0+git.1549986893.df836d6cc:
    • mariadb: Remove installing the xtrabackup package
    • ssl: Fix ACL setup in ssl_setup provider (bsc#1123709)

galera-python-clustercheck:

  • readtimeout.patch: Add socket read timeout (bsc#1122053)

openstack-ceilometer:

  • Install openstack-ceilometer-expirer.cron into /usr/share/ceilometer This is needed in a clustered environment where multiple ceilometer-collector services are installed on different nodes (and due to that multiple expirer cron jobs installed). That can lead to deadlocks when the cron jobs run in parallel on the different nodes (bsc#1113107)

openstack-heat-gbp:

  • switch to newton branch

python-PyKMIP:

  • Fix a denial-of-service bug by setting the server socket timeout (bsc#1120767 CVE-2018-1000872)

python-pysaml2:

  • Fix for the authentication bypass due to optimizations (CVE-2017-1000433, bsc#1074662)

rubygem-crowbar-client:

  • Update to 3.9.0
  • Add support for the restricted APIs
  • Add --raw to 'proposal show' and 'proposal edit'
  • Correctly parse error messages that we don't handle natively
  • Better upgrade repocheck output
  • Update to 3.7.0
    • upgrade: Use cloud_version config for upgrade
    • ses: Add ses upload subcommand
    • Add cloud_version config field.
    • Wrap os-release file parsing for better reuse.
    • upgrade: Fix repocheck component in error message
    • upgrade: Better repocheck output
  • updated to version 3.6.1
    • Hide the database step when it is not used (bsc#1118004)
    • Fix help strings
    • Describe how to upgrade more nodes with one command
Record
SUSE-SU-2019:1450-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
pykmip
PyPI
before 0.8.0
0.8.0
python-pykmip
Debian:12
before 0.7.0-3
0.7.0-3
python-pykmip
Debian:13
before 0.7.0-3
0.7.0-3
python-pykmip
Debian:14
before 0.7.0-3
0.7.0-3
pykmip
PyPI
before 0.8.0, plus listed versions
0.0.10.1.00.1.10.2.00.3.0
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0.3.10.3.20.3.30.4.00.4.10.5.00.6.00.7.0
0.8.0
python-PyKMIP
SUSE:HPE Helion OpenStack 8
before 0.6.0-3.3.1
0.6.0-3.3.1
python-PyKMIP
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 8
before 0.6.0-3.3.1
0.6.0-3.3.1
python-PyKMIP
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8
before 0.6.0-3.3.1
0.6.0-3.3.1
caasp-openstack-heat-templates
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 1.0+git.1553079189.3bf8922-1.6.2
1.0+git.1553079189.3bf8922-1.6.2
crowbar
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.0+git.1551088848.823bcaa3-7.29.2
4.0+git.1551088848.823bcaa3-7.29.2
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
crowbar-core
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.0+git.1556285635.ab602dd4d-9.46.3
4.0+git.1556285635.ab602dd4d-9.46.3
crowbar-ha
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.0+git.1556181005.47c643d-4.46.3
4.0+git.1556181005.47c643d-4.46.3
crowbar-openstack
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.0+git.1554887450.ff7c30c1c-9.51.3
4.0+git.1554887450.ff7c30c1c-9.51.3
galera-python-clustercheck
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0.0+git.1506329536.8f5878c-1.6.2
0.0+git.1506329536.8f5878c-1.6.2
openstack-ceilometer
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.1.1~dev4-4.15.3
7.1.1~dev4-4.15.3
openstack-ceilometer-doc
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 7.1.1~dev4-4.15.3
7.1.1~dev4-4.15.3
openstack-heat-gbp
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 5.1.1~dev1-2.6.3
5.1.1~dev1-2.6.3
python-PyKMIP
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0.5.0-3.3.3
0.5.0-3.3.3
python-pysaml2
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.0.2-3.6.3
4.0.2-3.6.3
rubygem-crowbar-client
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 3.9.0-7.14.2
3.9.0-7.14.2
crowbar
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.0+git.1551088848.823bcaa3-7.29.2
4.0+git.1551088848.823bcaa3-7.29.2
crowbar-core
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.0+git.1556285635.ab602dd4d-9.46.3
4.0+git.1556285635.ab602dd4d-9.46.3
rubygem-crowbar-client
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 3.9.0-7.14.2
3.9.0-7.14.2
python-pykmip
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
0.4.0-10.4.0-2
None known
python-pykmip
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
0.5.0-4build20.6.0-10.7.0-2
None known
python-pykmip
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
0.8.0-0ubuntu10.9.1-2
None known
python-pykmip
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
0.10.0-30.10.0-4
None known
python-pykmip
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
0.10.0-50.10.0-6
None known
python-pykmip
Ubuntu:25.10
All versions, plus listed versions
0.10.0-8
None known
python-pykmip
Ubuntu:26.10
All versions, plus listed versions
0.10.0-10
None known
python-pykmip
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
0.10.0-80.10.0-90.10.0-10
None known

History

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In short

CVE-2018-1000872 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Pykmip Project Pykmip, published December 20, 2018. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.29%, the 70th percentile. Fixed in pykmip 0.8.0.

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