CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-12254
8.7 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2024-12-06
- Last modified
- 2026-07-31
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.7 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400, CWE-770
Description
Starting in Python 3.12.0, the asyncio._SelectorSocketTransport.writelines()
method would not "pause" writing and signal to the Protocol to drain
the buffer to the wire once the write buffer reached the "high-water
mark". Because of this, Protocols would not periodically drain the write
buffer potentially leading to memory exhaustion.
This
vulnerability likely impacts a small number of users, you must be using
Python 3.12.0 or later, on macOS or Linux, using the asyncio module
with protocols, and using .writelines() method which had new
zero-copy-on-write behavior in Python 3.12.0 and later. If not all of
these factors are true then your usage of Python is unaffected.
Related
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/71e8429ac8e2adc10084ab5ec29a62f4b6671a82 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9aa0deb2eef2655a1029ba228527b152353135b5 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e991ac8f2037d78140e417cc9a9486223eb3e786 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/127655 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/127656 github.com
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/H4O3UBAOAQQXGT4RE3E4XQYR5XLROORB/ mail.python.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/12/06/1 www.openwall.com
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250404-0010/ security.netapp.com