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CVE-2024-6232

Public on 2024-09-03
Modified on 2024-09-11
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.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python3 2024-11-08 18:01 ALAS2-2024-2694
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.11 2024-11-13 12:28 ALAS2023-2024-757
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.9 2024-12-12 20:19 ALAS2023-2024-790
Amazon Linux 2 - Python3.8 Extra python38 2024-11-08 17:57 ALAS2PYTHON3.8-2024-016

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H