CVE-2024-6232
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · CWE-1333
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64dPatch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbfPatch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285Patch