CVE-2024-6232 (GCVE-0-2024-6232)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-03 12:29 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:32
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-04 15:24 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
13 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Python Software Foundation | CPython |
Affected:
0 , < 3.8.20
(python)
Affected: 3.9.0 , < 3.9.20 (python) Affected: 3.10.0 , < 3.10.15 (python) Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.10 (python) Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.6 (python) Affected: 3.13.0a1 , < 3.13.0rc2 (python) |
guessed | |
| python | cpython |
Affected:
0 , < 3.8.20
(custom)
Affected: 3.9.0 , < 3.9.20 (custom) Affected: 3.10.0 , < 3.10.15 (custom) Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.10 (custom) Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.6 (custom) Affected: 3.13.0a1 , < 3.13.0rc2 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:python:cpython:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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