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CVE-2023-41419 (GCVE-0-2023-41419)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-25 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-25 00:11
VLAI
Summary
An issue in Gevent before version 23.9.0 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted script to the WSGIServer component.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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