CVE-2024-6232

medium

Published 2024-10-23 · Modified 2024-11-18

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
rocky	8	fixed
sles		affected
rocky	9	fixed
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.11.2-6+deb12u4`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u5`
debian	forky	fixed	`7.3.18+dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`7.3.18+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`7.3.18+dfsg-1`
almalinux	9	fixed	`python-unversioned-command-3.9.18-3.el9_4.6.noarch.rpm`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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