CVE-2025-6075 (GCVE-0-2025-6075)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-31 16:41 – Updated: 2026-03-03 14:43
VLAI
Title
Quadratic complexity in os.path.expandvars() with user-controlled template
Summary
If the value passed to os.path.expandvars() is user-controlled a performance degradation is possible when expanding environment variables.
Severity
1.8 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/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
  • 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 , < 3.15.0a2 (python)
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