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CVE-2024-6232

Date: September 3, 2024

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.

Language: Python

Severity Score

Related Resources (16)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6232
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0007/
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/5
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-6232
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-6232
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2024-6232

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CWE-1333

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

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