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CVE-2025-6075

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Date: October 31, 2025

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

Severity Score

2.3

Related Resources (10)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6075

Url: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/IUP5QJ6D4KK6ULHOMPC7DPNKRYQTQNLA/

Url: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f029e8db626ddc6e3a3beea4eff511a71aaceb5c

Url: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/631ba3407e3348ccd56ce5160c4fb2c5dc5f4d84

Url: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9ab89c026aa9611c4b0b67c288b8303a480fe742

Url: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/892747b4cf0f95ba8beb51c0d0658bfaa381ebca

Url: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/136065

Url: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2e6150adccaaf5bd95d4c19dfd04a36e0b325d8c

Url: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c8a5f3435c342964e0a432cc9fb448b7dbecd1ba

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2025-6075

Severity Score

2.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-400

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version https://github.com/python/cpython.git - v3.9.25;https://github.com/python/cpython.git - no_fix

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	2.3
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	HIGH
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

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