Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting python-3.11 package, versions <3.11.9-r9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-PYTHON311-7923791
  • published 6 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 3 Sep 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard python-3.11 to version 3.11.9-r9 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-3.11 package and not the python-3.11 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

7.5 high
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Red Hat

7.5 high