CVE-2026-6879

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-6879
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-6879.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-6879
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-07-28T13:46:30.650Z
Modified
2026-07-30T04:03:26.993255118Z
Severity
  • 2.0 (Low) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Quadratic Behavior in xml.etree.ElementPath Index Predicates
Details

Element.findall() and fully-consumed Element.iterfind() exhibit O(n^2) time complexity when using XPath index predicates (e.g. [1], [last()], [last()-N]) on XML documents with many same-tag siblings. Element.find() is only affected when the first match is near the end  of the sibling list, such as with [last()] or [last()-N];  .//item[1] short-circuits after the first match.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "PSF",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/6xxx/CVE-2026-6879.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "3.15.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python/cpython

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python/cpython
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
2ffab083782968a4d732738f4f1dff6bbd69d2b0
Database specific 
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.9.8
v0.9.9
v1.*
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.1
v1.1.1
v1.2
v1.2b1
v1.2b2
v1.2b3
v1.2b4
v1.3
v1.3b1
v1.4
v1.4b1
v1.4b2
v1.4b3
v1.5
v1.5.1
v1.5.2
v1.5.2a1
v1.5.2a2
v1.5.2b1
v1.5.2b2
v1.5.2c1
v1.5a1
v1.5a2
v1.5a3
v1.5a4
v1.5b1
v1.5b2
v1.6a1
v1.6a2
v2.*
v2.0
v2.0b1
v2.0b2
v2.0c1
v2.1
v2.1a1
v2.1a2
v2.1b1
v2.1b2
v2.1c1
v2.1c2
v2.2a3
v2.3c1
v2.3c2
v2.4
v2.4a1
v2.4a2
v2.4a3
v2.4b1
v2.4b2
v2.4c1
v3.*
v3.0a1
v3.0a2
v3.0a3
v3.0a4
v3.0a5
v3.0b1
v3.0b2
v3.0b3
v3.0rc1
v3.0rc2
v3.0rc3
v3.1
v3.10.0a1
v3.10.0a7
v3.11.0a3
v3.11.0a4
v3.11.0a5
v3.11.0a6
v3.11.0a7
v3.11.0b1
v3.12.0a1
v3.12.0a2
v3.12.0a3
v3.12.0a4
v3.12.0a5
v3.12.0a6
v3.12.0a7
v3.12.0b1
v3.13.0a1
v3.13.0a2
v3.13.0a3
v3.13.0a4
v3.13.0a5
v3.13.0a6
v3.13.0b1
v3.14.0a1
v3.14.0a2
v3.14.0a3
v3.14.0a4
v3.14.0a5
v3.14.0a6
v3.14.0a7
v3.14.0b1
v3.15.0a1
v3.15.0a2
v3.15.0a3
v3.15.0a4
v3.15.0a5
v3.15.0a6
v3.15.0a7
v3.15.0a8
v3.15.0b1
v3.1a1
v3.1a2
v3.1b1
v3.1rc1
v3.1rc2
v3.2a1
v3.2a2
v3.2a3
v3.2a4
v3.2b1
v3.2b2
v3.2rc1
v3.2rc2
v3.2rc3
v3.3.0a2
v3.3.0a3
v3.3.0a4
v3.3.0b1
v3.3.0b2
v3.3.0rc1
v3.3.0rc2
v3.3.0rc3
v3.4.0a1
v3.4.0a2
v3.4.0a3
v3.4.0a4
v3.4.0b1
v3.4.0b2
v3.4.0b3
v3.5.0a1
v3.5.0a2
v3.5.0a3
v3.5.0a4
v3.5.0b1
v3.6.0a3
v3.6.0b1
v3.7.0a2
v3.9.0a2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-6879.json"