CVE-2024-6232

high

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.

References

Advisories
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https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0007/

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/5

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-09-03

Updated: 2025-03-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H