> CVE-2024-6232 [HIGH]

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PUBLISHED
2024-09-03 13:15
MODIFIED
2025-03-20 18:15
CVSS_SCORE V3
7.5
EPSS (Prob. Exploit)
2.20%
Top 17.3%
DATA SOURCES:
NVD 🔗 2025-10-18 CVE PROJECT 🔗 2026-01-19 FIRST EPSS 🔗 2026-11-08 OSV 🔗 2026-11-08

> 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_PRODUCTS

Python - Python
< 3.8.20
Python - Python
>= 3.9.0 < 3.9.20
Python - Python
>= 3.10.0 < 3.10.15
Python - Python
>= 3.11.0 < 3.11.10
Python - Python
>= 3.12.0 < 3.12.6
Python - Python
Version: 3.13.0

> CVSS V3 METRICS

CVSS_VECTOR
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

> MÉTRIQUES CVSS DÉTAILLÉES

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Métrique Valeur Interprétation
AV (Vecteur d'Attaque)
Attack Vector
Network (N)
Exploit possible à distance via réseau (HTTP, API, etc.)
AC (Complexité d'Attaque)
Attack Complexity
Low (L)
Peu de conditions requises pour exploiter
PR (Privilèges Requis)
Privileges Required
None (N)
Aucune authentification requise
UI (Interaction Utilisateur)
User Interaction
None (N)
Aucune interaction utilisateur nécessaire
S (Périmètre)
Scope
Unchanged (U)
Impact reste dans le périmètre du composant compromis
C (Impact Confidentialité)
Confidentiality Impact
None (N)
Aucune divulgation d'informations
I (Impact Intégrité)
Integrity Impact
None (N)
Aucune modification de données possible
A (Impact Disponibilité)
Availability Impact
High (H)
Interruption totale du service possible

> RÉSUMÉ DES IMPACTS

Confidentialité
None
Aucune divulgation d'informations
Intégrité
None
Aucune modification de données possible
Disponibilité
High
Interruption totale du service possible

> RED HAT SECURITY ADVISORIES

Red Hat Security Advisory: python3 security update
An update for python3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vuln...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.9 security update
An update for python3.9 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.11 security update
An update for python3.11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.12 security update
An update for python3.12 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python39:3.9 security update
An update for the python39:3.9 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Re...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.12 security update
An update for python3.12 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.11 security update
An update for python3.11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python39:3.9 security update
An update for the python39:3.9 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Re...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python39:3.9 security update
An update for the python39:3.9 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3 security update
An update for python3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulne...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.9 security update
An update for python3.9 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vul...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.12 security update
An update for python3.12 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vu...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.11 security update
An update for python3.11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vu...
Red Hat Security Advisory: python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 security update
An update for the python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A...

> OSV (GOOGLE OPEN SOURCE VULNERABILITIES)

Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers

AFFECTED PACKAGES:
Unknown / Unknown
212 versions affected
ALIASES:
BIT-libpython-2024-6232, BIT-python-2024-6232, BIT-python-min-2024-6232, PSF-2024-11

> HISTORIQUE DES MODIFICATIONS

Première apparition
03/09/2024 13:15
Source: NVD
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 18/10/2025 14:54
CVEPROJECT
Champ modifié: CVE Project
Ancienne valeur:
Non
Nouvelle valeur:
Oui
Total des modifications: 1 Dernière mise à jour: 1 year ago
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