CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-6232
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-09-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- 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-1333
Description
There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython.
Regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives.
Affected configurations
• python python (< 3.8.20)
• python python (>= 3.9.0 < 3.9.20)
• python python (>= 3.10.0 < 3.10.15)
• python python (>= 3.11.0 < 3.11.10)
• python python (>= 3.12.0 < 3.12.6)
• python python 3.13.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4 Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06 Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4 Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877 Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373 Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0007/ Third Party Advisory