CVE-2025-13837 (GCVE-0-2025-13837)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-01 18:13 – Updated: 2026-03-03 14:41
VLAI
Title
Out-of-memory when loading Plist
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
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
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
PSF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.10.20 (python)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.15 (python)
Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.13 (python)
Affected: 3.13.0 , < 3.13.10 (python)
Affected: 3.14.0 , < 3.14.1 (python)
Affected: 3.15.0a1 , < 3.15.0a3 (python)
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