CVE-2024-6232 (GCVE-0-2024-6232)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-03 12:29 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:32
VLAI
Title
Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers
Summary
There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython. Regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
PSF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.8.20 (python)
Affected: 3.9.0 , < 3.9.20 (python)
Affected: 3.10.0 , < 3.10.15 (python)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.10 (python)
Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.6 (python)
Affected: 3.13.0a1 , < 3.13.0rc2 (python)
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python cpython Affected: 0 , < 3.8.20 (custom)
Affected: 3.9.0 , < 3.9.20 (custom)
Affected: 3.10.0 , < 3.10.15 (custom)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.10 (custom)
Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.6 (custom)
Affected: 3.13.0a1 , < 3.13.0rc2 (custom)
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Credits
Elias Joakim Myllymäki Seth Larson Seth Larson Gregory P. Smith
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