Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2026-05-11 17:31
Modified
2026-09-08 08:34
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.
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Bitnami",
"name": "libpython",
"purl": "pkg:bitnami/libpython"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.10.20"
},
{
"introduced": "3.11.0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.11.15"
},
{
"introduced": "3.12.0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.12.13"
},
{
"introduced": "3.13.0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.13.11"
},
{
"introduced": "3.14.0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.14.2"
}
],
"type": "SEMVER"
}
],
"severity": [
{
"score": "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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-12084"
],
"database_specific": {
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"severity": "Medium"
},
"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.",
"id": "BIT-libpython-2025-12084",
"modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
"published": "2026-05-11T17:31:35.652Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "FIX",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/027f21e417b26eed4505ac2db101a4352b7c51a0"
},
{
"type": "FIX",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/08d8e18ad81cd45bc4a27d6da478b51ea49486e4"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/27648a1818749ef44c420afe6173af6868715437"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/41f468786762348960486c166833a218a0a436af"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/57937a8e5e293f0dcba5115f7b7a11b1e0c9a273"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8d2d7bb2e754f8649a68ce4116271a4932f76907"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9c9dda6625a2a90d2a06c657eee021d6be19842d"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a46c10ec9d4050ab67b8a932e0859a2ea60c3cb8"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a696ba8b4d42fd632afc9bc88ad830a2e4cceed8"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c97e87593063d84a2bd9fe7068b30eb44de23dc0"
},
{
"type": "FIX",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ddcd2acd85d891a53e281c773b3093f9db953964"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e91c11449cad34bac3ea55ee09ca557691d92b53"
},
{
"type": "FIX",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/142145"
},
{
"type": "FIX",
"url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/142146"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12084"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.6.2",
"summary": "Quadratic complexity in node ID cache clearing"
}
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