CVE-2026-3276 (GCVE-0-2026-3276)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-03 14:29 – Updated: 2026-06-04 17:03
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Title
Potential DoS via quadratic complexity in unicodedata.normalize()
Summary
unicodedata.normalize() can take excessive CPU time when processing specially crafted Unicode input containing long runs of combining characters with alternating Canonical Combining Class values. This affects all normalization forms.
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
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 , < 3.15.0b2 (python)
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Credits
Seokchan Yoon (https://github.com/ch4n3-yoon) Tim Peters (https://github.com/tim-one) Bénédikt Tran (https://github.com/picnixz) Serhiy Storchaka (https://github.com/serhiy-storchaka) Stan Ulbrych (https://github.com/StanFromIreland) Seth Larson (https://github.com/sethmlarson) Petr Viktorin (https://github.com/encukou)
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