CVE-2024-6232 (GCVE-0-2024-6232)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-03 12:29
Modified
2025-11-03 22:32
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Version: 0
Version: 3.9.0
Version: 3.10.0
Version: 3.11.0
Version: 3.12.0
Version: 3.13.0a1
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