CVE-2024-6232

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

2%p82

Published

Sep 3, 2024 (Sep 3, 2024)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: python
Products: python
Weakness: CWE-1333
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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