CVE-2026-4224 (GCVE-0-2026-4224)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-16 17:52
Modified
2026-04-08 12:55
Severity ?
6.0 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
When an Expat parser with a registered ElementDeclHandler parses an inline document type definition containing a deeply nested content model a C stack overflow occurs.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Version: 0
Version: 3.14.0
Version: 3.15.0a1
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