FKIE_CVE-2025-13837

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-01 18:16 - Updated: 2025-12-02 18:15
Severity ?
2.1 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
Summary
When loading a plist file, the plistlib module reads data in size specified by the file itself, meaning a malicious file can cause OOM and DoS issues
References
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/694922cf40aa3a28f898b5f5ee08b71b4922df70
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/71fa8eb8233b37f16c88b6e3e583b461b205d1ba
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b64441e4852383645af5b435411a6f849dd1b4cb
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/issues/119342
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/pull/119343
cna@python.orghttps://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/2X5IBCJXRQAZ5PSERLHMSJFBHFR3QM2C/
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