ALPINE-CVE-2024-6232

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CVE-2024-6232
Published: 03 Sept 2024, 13:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:57

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Sept 2024, 13:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:57
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•python3

    < 3.10.15-r0 | < 3.11.10-r0 | < 3.11.10-r0 | < 3.12.6-r0 | < 3.12.6-r0 | < 3.12.6-r0 | < 3.12.6-r0

References (1)