Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2025-08-11 13:52
Modified
2025-11-06 13:25
Summary
Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers
Details

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.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "libpython",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/libpython"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.8.20"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.9.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.9.20"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.10.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.10.15"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.11.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.11.10"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.12.0"
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            {
              "fixed": "3.12.6"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-6232"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives.",
  "id": "BIT-libpython-2024-6232",
  "modified": "2025-11-06T13:25:46.476Z",
  "published": "2025-08-11T13:52:51.685Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6232"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0007/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers"
}


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