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CVE-2024-6232
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-09-03T13:15:05.363 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:17:35.503

Summary

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

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References

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