VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-6232

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability2.20%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-09-03
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • cna@python.org: CWE-1333
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-1333

Primary references