CVE-2024-6232

Updated: 2025-11-10 02:33:42.472916

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.


Links NIST CIRCL RHEL Ubuntu

Severity

Severity Score
CVSS Version 2.x 0.0
CVSS Version 3.x HIGH 7.5

Status

OS name Project name Version Score Severity Status Errata Last updated

Statement

Ubuntu 18.04 ELS python2.7 2.7.17-1 7.5 HIGH Released CLSA-2024:1727895277 2024-10-02 17:28:09
Ubuntu 18.04 ELS python3.6 3.6.9-1 7.5 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1739904482 2025-02-20 06:38:57
Total: 22