CVE-2024-6232
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6232
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-6232.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-6232
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2024-09-03T13:15:05.363Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-08T04:15:38.751773Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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
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- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/5
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0007/
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/5
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
Affected packages
Git / github.com/python/cpython
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/python/cpython
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