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CVE-2024-6232

HIGH
Published 2024-09-03T12:29:00.102Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
7.5
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.008
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.8% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.726
Higher than 72.6% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Python Software Foundation

CPython

Affected Versions:

0 3.9.0 3.10.0 3.11.0 3.12.0 3.13.0a1
python

cpython

Affected Versions:

0 3.9.0 3.10.0 3.11.0 3.12.0 3.13.0a1

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-mmm5-wgvp-wp8r

Advisory Details

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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6232
WEB https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
WEB https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
WEB https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4
WEB https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06
WEB https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4
WEB https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d
WEB https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877
WEB https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf
WEB https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373
WEB https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY
WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0007
WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/5

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: September 3, 2024, Modified: January 31, 2025

References

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4
Published: 2024-09-03T12:29:00.102Z
Last Modified: 2025-03-20T18:02:26.275Z
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