CVE-2025-6075
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.5 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
5.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
If the value passed to os.path.expandvars() is user-controlled a performance degradation is possible when expanding environment variables.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2e6150adccaaf5bd95d4c19dfd04a36e0b325d8c ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2e6150adccaaf5bd95d4c19dfd04a36e0b325d8cPatch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5dceb93486176e6b4a6d9754491005113eb23427Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/631ba3407e3348ccd56ce5160c4fb2c5dc5f4d84Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/892747b4cf0f95ba8beb51c0d0658bfaa381ebcaPatch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9ab89c026aa9611c4b0b67c288b8303a480fe742Patch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c8a5f3435c342964e0a432cc9fb448b7dbecd1baPatch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f029e8db626ddc6e3a3beea4eff511a71aaceb5cPatch
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/136065Advisory