CVE-2025-6069 (GCVE-0-2025-6069)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-17 13:39
Modified
2026-04-21 20:17
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
The html.parser.HTMLParser class had worse-case quadratic complexity when processing certain crafted malformed inputs potentially leading to amplified denial-of-service.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Version: 0
Version: 3.11.0
Version: 3.12.0
Version: 3.13.0
Version: 3.14.0a1
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