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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 ↗

Last checked: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:18:30 UTC