Updated: 2025-08-20 00:11:33.644366
Description:
read_ints in plistlib.py in Python through 3.9.1 is vulnerable to a potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM exhaustion when processing malformed Apple Property List files in binary format.
| Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
| Severity | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS Version 2.x | 0.0 | |
| CVSS Version 3.x | MEDIUM | 6.5 |
| OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux 3.22 | python | 3.9 | 6.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2026-02-02 14:29:46 | Not affected: the deployed Python 3.9.23 includes the upstream fix for the plistlib read_ints DoS (b... | |
| Alpine Linux 3.22 | python | 3.7 | 6.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2026-02-16 14:40:00 | Not affected: the deployed Python 3.9.23 includes the upstream fix for the plistlib read_ints DoS (b... | |
| Alpine Linux 3.22 | python | 3.8 | 6.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2026-02-07 04:07:33 | Not affected: the deployed Python 3.9.23 includes the upstream fix for the plistlib read_ints DoS (b... | |
| Alpine Linux 3.22 | python | 3.6 | 6.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2026-01-27 16:42:58 | Not affected: the deployed Python 3.9.23 includes the upstream fix for the plistlib read_ints DoS (b... | |
| Debian 10 | python | 3.6 | 6.5 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-09-09 19:25:19 | ||
| Debian 10 | python | 2.7 | 6.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-10-10 11:25:04 | ||
| Debian 11 | python | 2.7 | 6.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-10-10 11:25:03 | ||
| Debian 11 | python | 3.6 | 6.5 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-09-09 19:25:19 | ||
| Debian 12 | python | 3.9 | 6.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-12-11 07:44:30 | Not affected: the deployed Python 3.9.23 includes the upstream fix for the plistlib read_ints DoS (b... | |
| Debian 12 | python | 3.7 | 6.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-12-11 07:45:17 | Not affected: the deployed Python 3.9.23 includes the upstream fix for the plistlib read_ints DoS (b... |