PT-2022-4437 · Pypi · Eth-Account

Denys Vozniuk · CVE-2022-1930 · Published 2022-08-22 · Updated 2026-07-06

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions eth-account (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) that can be triggered in the eth-account PyPI package. This occurs when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the encode structured data method, potentially allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. The vulnerability is associated with incorrect input data used as a condition for executing a cycle.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1333

CWE-697

Related Identifiers

BDU:2022-05301

CVE-2022-1930

GHSA-V65G-F3CJ-FJP4

PYSEC-2026-806

Affected Products

Eth-Account

References · 13

• 🔥 https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/eth-account-redos-xray-248681 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2026-806 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1930 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-v65g-f3cj-fjp4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-1930 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-05301 · Security Note
• https://github.com/ethereum/eth-account · Note
• https://github.com/ethereum/eth-account/commit/70f89be700df0d5f08ef696252c88741f8414060 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/35038 · Telegram Post
• https://pypi.org/project/eth-account · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/35152 · Telegram Post
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-ETHACCOUNT-2988803 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v65g-f3cj-fjp4 · Note