CVE-2024-6232

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Python Software FoundationCPython0 < 3.8.20affected
Python Software FoundationCPython3.9.0 < 3.9.20affected
Python Software FoundationCPython3.10.0 < 3.10.15affected
Python Software FoundationCPython3.11.0 < 3.11.10affected
Python Software FoundationCPython3.12.0 < 3.12.6affected
Python Software FoundationCPython3.13.0a1 < 3.13.0rc2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1333: CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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