{"id":"GHSA-7pmh-vrww-25xx","summary":"freewvs's nested directory structure can interrupt scan","details":"### Impact\nA directory structure of more than 1000 nested directories can interrupt a freewvs scan due to Python's recursion limit and os.walk(). This can be problematic in a case where an administrator scans the dirs of potentially untrusted users.\n\n### Patches\nThis has been fixed in this commit by limiting the recursion to 500 directories:\nhttps://github.com/schokokeksorg/freewvs/commit/83a6b55c0435c69f447488b791555e6078803143\n\nThis issue was discovered by Hanno Böck.","aliases":["CVE-2020-15101","PYSEC-2020-233"],"modified":"2026-05-07T05:01:43.659771333Z","published":"2024-08-30T18:43:23Z","database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-674"],"severity":"LOW","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2024-08-30T18:43:23Z","nvd_published_at":"2020-07-14T22:15:00Z"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/schokokeksorg/freewvs/security/advisories/GHSA-7pmh-vrww-25xx"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15101"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/schokokeksorg/freewvs/commit/83a6b55c0435c69f447488b791555e6078803143"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/freewvs/PYSEC-2020-233.yaml"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/schokokeksorg/freewvs"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"freewvs","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/freewvs"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.1.1"}]}],"versions":["0.1.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/08/GHSA-7pmh-vrww-25xx/GHSA-7pmh-vrww-25xx.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"}]}