Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2025-12-05 11:13
Modified
2025-12-05 11:40
Summary
Quadratic complexity in os.path.expandvars() with user-controlled template
Details

If the value passed to os.path.expandvars() is user-controlled a performance degradation is possible when expanding environment variables.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "python",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/python"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.13.10"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.14.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.14.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-6075"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Low"
  },
  "details": "If the value passed to os.path.expandvars() is user-controlled a \nperformance degradation is possible when expanding environment \nvariables.",
  "id": "BIT-python-2025-6075",
  "modified": "2025-12-05T11:40:36.013Z",
  "published": "2025-12-05T11:13:34.373Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2e6150adccaaf5bd95d4c19dfd04a36e0b325d8c"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5dceb93486176e6b4a6d9754491005113eb23427"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/631ba3407e3348ccd56ce5160c4fb2c5dc5f4d84"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/892747b4cf0f95ba8beb51c0d0658bfaa381ebca"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9ab89c026aa9611c4b0b67c288b8303a480fe742"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c8a5f3435c342964e0a432cc9fb448b7dbecd1ba"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f029e8db626ddc6e3a3beea4eff511a71aaceb5c"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/136065"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/IUP5QJ6D4KK6ULHOMPC7DPNKRYQTQNLA/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6075"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Quadratic complexity in os.path.expandvars() with user-controlled template"
}


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