CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-12084
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-12-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-407
Description
When building nested elements using xml.dom.minidom methods such as appendChild() that have a dependency on _clear_id_cache() the algorithm is quadratic. Availability can be impacted when building excessively nested documents.
Affected configurations
• python python (< 3.13.11)
• python python (>= 3.14.0 < 3.14.2)
• python python 3.15.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/027f21e417b26eed4505ac2db101a4352b7c51a0 Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/08d8e18ad81cd45bc4a27d6da478b51ea49486e4 Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/27648a1818749ef44c420afe6173af6868715437 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/41f468786762348960486c166833a218a0a436af github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/57937a8e5e293f0dcba5115f7b7a11b1e0c9a273 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8d2d7bb2e754f8649a68ce4116271a4932f76907 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9c9dda6625a2a90d2a06c657eee021d6be19842d github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a46c10ec9d4050ab67b8a932e0859a2ea60c3cb8 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a696ba8b4d42fd632afc9bc88ad830a2e4cceed8 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c97e87593063d84a2bd9fe7068b30eb44de23dc0 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ddcd2acd85d891a53e281c773b3093f9db953964 Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e91c11449cad34bac3ea55ee09ca557691d92b53 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/142145 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/142146 Issue Tracking, Patch