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CVE-2024-6232

Published: Sep 3, 2024

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Python Software Foundation	CPython	affected `0 - < 3.8.20` affected `3.9.0 - < 3.9.20` affected `3.10.0 - < 3.10.15` affected `3.11.0 - < 3.11.10` affected `3.12.0 - < 3.12.6` +1 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

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

patch

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

issue-tracking

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

vendor-advisory

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

patch

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

patch

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

patch

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

patch

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

patch

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

patch

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

patch

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