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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-12-10 17:41

Modified

2026-01-27 09:14

Summary

Quadratic complexity in node ID cache clearing

Details

When building nested elements using xml.dom.minidom methods such as appendChild() that have a dependency on _clear_id_cache() the algorithm is quadratic. Availability can be impacted when building excessively nested documents.

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        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "libpython",
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              "fixed": "3.13.11"
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            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.14.2"
            }
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          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
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    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
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  "id": "BIT-libpython-2025-12084",
  "modified": "2026-01-27T09:14:53.416Z",
  "published": "2025-12-10T17:41:46.450Z",
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CVE-2025-12084 (GCVE-0-2025-12084)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-03 18:55 – Updated: 2026-01-26 14:18

Title

Quadratic complexity in node ID cache clearing

Summary

Severity ?

6.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Assigner

PSF

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/142146	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/142145	issue-tracking
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/08d8e18a…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/027f21e4…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ddcd2acd…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/27648a18…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8d2d7bb2…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9c9dda66…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a696ba8b…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/41f46878…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/57937a8e…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e91c1144…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a46c10ec…	patch
	https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c97e8759…	patch

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Python Software Foundation	CPython	Affected: 0 , < 3.13.11 (python) Affected: 3.14.0 , < 3.14.2 (python) Affected: 3.15.0a1 , < 3.15.0a3 (python)

Credits

Jacob Walls Shai Berger Natalia Bidart Seth Larson

Show details on NVD website

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2025-12084 (GCVE-0-2025-12084)

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