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CVE-2026-11972

tarfile opened in streaming mode mishandles EOF PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

When using the "tarfile" module with a file opened in "streaming mode" (mode="r|") the tarfile module did not properly handle EOF, making archive parsing take exponentially longer.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Python Software Foundation / CPythonaffected 0 before 3.10.21; affected 3.11.0 before 3.11.16; affected 3.12.0 before 3.12.14; affected 3.13.0 before 3.13.15; affected 3.14.0 before 3.14.7; affected 3.15.0a1 before 3.15.0b4

CWE

CWE-252, CWE-606, CWE-770

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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