CVE-2024-11168

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 31
Deferred
Published: 12 Nov 2024, 21:22
Last modified:03 Nov 2025, 21:51

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
25/100
CVSS Score
6.3 MEDIUM
v4.0 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.55% LOW
1% probability -0.05%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Nov 2024, 21:22
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Nov 2025, 21:51
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The urllib.parse.urlsplit() and urlparse() functions improperly validated bracketed hosts (`[]`), allowing hosts that weren't IPv6 or IPvFuture. This behavior was not conformant to RFC 3986 and potentially enabled SSRF if a URL is processed by more than one URL parser.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N/AU:N
  • v4.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
  • v3.1•LOW•Score: 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.55%• Percentile: 68%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-918•Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

    The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.

Affected Systems

  • python software foundation•cpython

    < 3.9.21 | ≥ 3.10.0, < 3.10.16 | ≥ 3.11.0, < 3.11.4 | ≥ 3.12.0a1, < 3.12.0b1

References (9)