CVE-2026-11972 (GCVE-0-2026-11972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-23 22:02 – Updated: 2026-06-24 15:34
VLAI
Title
tarfile opened in streaming mode mishandles EOF
Summary
When using the "tarfile" module with a file opened in "streaming mode" (mode="r|") the tarfile module did not properly handle EOF, making archive parsing take exponentially longer.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
PSF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.16.0 (python)
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Credits
Ryan Hileman (https://github.com/lunixbochs) Petr Viktorin (https://github.com/encukou) Stan Ulbrych (https://github.com/StanFromIreland)
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