{"id":"CVE-2020-15101","aliases":["GHSA-7pmh-vrww-25xx","PYSEC-2020-233"],"title":"freewvs's nested directory structure can interrupt scan","summary":"freewvs's nested directory structure can interrupt scan","severity":"low","cvss":2.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","vendor":"freewvs","product":"freewvs","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["freewvs < 0.1.1"],"patched":["freewvs 0.1.1"],"published":"2024-08-30","updated":"2026-07-08","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7pmh-vrww-25xx","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/schokokeksorg/freewvs/security/advisories/GHSA-7pmh-vrww-25xx"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15101"},{"url":"https://github.com/schokokeksorg/freewvs/commit/83a6b55c0435c69f447488b791555e6078803143"},{"url":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/freewvs/PYSEC-2020-233.yaml"},{"url":"https://github.com/schokokeksorg/freewvs"}],"tags":["osv","pip"],"epss":0.00693,"epssPercentile":0.51486,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-08T18:25:47.064Z","slug":"CVE-2020-15101","body":"## Overview\n\n### 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.\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `freewvs < 0.1.1`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `freewvs 0.1.1`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":16,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":15.4,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}