usn-7280-3
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2025-09-29 12:01
Modified
2026-04-27 14:11
Summary
python2.7 regression
Details

USN-7280-2 fixed vulnerabilities in Python. It was discovered that the fixes for CVE-2025-0938 and CVE-2024-11168 were incorrectly applied on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as a result. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled parsing domain names that included square brackets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attack.

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  "modified": "2026-04-27T14:11:40Z",
  "published": "2025-09-29T12:01:50Z",
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}



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