DEBIAN-CVE-2024-6232

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CVE-2024-6232
Published: 03 Sept 2024, 13:15
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:30

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_debian)
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
28 Apr 2026, 20:30
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

  • debian•pypy3

    < 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u5 | all | < 7.3.18+dfsg-1 | < 7.3.18+dfsg-1

  • debian•python2.7

    all

  • debian•python3.11

    < 3.11.2-6+deb12u4

  • debian•python3.13

    < 3.13.0~rc2-1 | < 3.13.0~rc2-1

  • debian•python3.9

    < 3.9.2-1+deb11u2

References (1)