An issue discovered in Python Charmers Future 0.18.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted Set-Cookie header from malicious web server.
CVE-2022-40899
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.8%, top 24% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- —
- EPSS
- 76.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
December 23, 2022
Last Modified
April 15, 2025
References (10)
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/blob/master/src/future/backports/http/cookiejar.py#L215
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/pull/610
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17157
- cve@mitrehttps://pypi.org/project/future/
- cve@mitrehttps://pyup.io/posts/pyup-discovers-redos-vulnerabilities-in-top-python-packages/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/blob/master/src/future/backports/http/cookiejar.py#L215
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/pull/610
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17157
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pypi.org/project/future/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pyup.io/posts/pyup-discovers-redos-vulnerabilities-in-top-python-packages/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-40899(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | python-future (0.15.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1) @ xenial | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| redhat | python-future-0:0.18.3-1.el8pc | 2023-11-08 | redhat |
| redhat | python-future-0:0.18.3-1.0.1.el8ui | 2023-05-03 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| future | 0.0.1 ... 0.9.0 (50 versions) | 0.18.3 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
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Additional Vendor Advisories
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