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CVE-2024-6232

Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Python Software Foundation / CPythonaffected 0 before 3.8.20; affected 3.9.0 before 3.9.20; affected 3.10.0 before 3.10.15; affected 3.11.0 before 3.11.10; affected 3.12.0 before 3.12.6; affected 3.13.0a1 before 3.13.0rc2

CWE

CWE-1333

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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CVE

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