CVE-2024-6232
HIGH7.5EPSS 3.0%Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers
Published: 9/3/2024Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (9)
- Alpine/python3from 0, < 3.10.15-r0
- Bitnami/libpythonfrom 0, < 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
- Bitnami/pythonfrom 0, < 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
- Bitnami/python-minfrom 0, < 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
- Debian/pypy3from 0, < 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u5
- Debian/python2.7from 0
- Debian/python3.11from 0, < 3.11.2-6+deb12u4
- Debian/python3.13from 0, < 3.13.0~rc2-1
- Debian/python3.9from 0, < 3.9.2-1+deb11u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (16)
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-6232
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-6232
- WEBhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4
- WEBhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06
- WEBhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4
- WEBhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d
- WEBhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877
- WEBhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf
- WEBhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373
- WEBhttps://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
- WEBhttps://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html
- WEBhttps://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/
- WEBhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6232
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0007/
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/5