CVE-2024-6232

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 49
Modified
Published: 03 Sept 2024, 12:29
Last modified:03 Nov 2025, 22:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
41/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
3.01% LOW
3% probability -0.16%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Sept 2024, 12:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Nov 2025, 22:32
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

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 3.01%• Percentile: 87%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-1333•Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

    The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.

Affected Systems

  • python software foundation•cpython

    < 3.8.20 | ≥ 3.9.0, < 3.9.20 | ≥ 3.10.0, < 3.10.15 | ≥ 3.11.0, < 3.11.10 | ≥ 3.12.0, < 3.12.6 | ≥ 3.13.0a1, < 3.13.0rc2

  • python•python

    < 3.8.20 | ≥ 3.9.0, < 3.9.20 | ≥ 3.10.0, < 3.10.15 | ≥ 3.11.0, < 3.11.10 | ≥ 3.12.0, < 3.12.6 | 3.13.0:alpha0 | 3.13.0:alpha1 | 3.13.0:alpha2 | 3.13.0:alpha3 | 3.13.0:alpha4 | 3.13.0:alpha5 | 3.13.0:alpha6 | 3.13.0:beta1 | 3.13.0:beta2 | 3.13.0:beta3 | 3.13.0:beta4 | 3.13.0:rc1

References (13)