CVE-2025-6075 (GCVE-0-2025-6075)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-31 16:41
Modified
2026-03-03 14:43
Severity ?
1.8 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
If the value passed to os.path.expandvars() is user-controlled a performance degradation is possible when expanding environment variables.
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: 3.14.0
Version: 3.15.0a1
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