Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting cpython package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-CPYTHON-13849184
  • published7 Nov 2025
  • disclosed31 Oct 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2025-6075  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for cpython.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the os.path.expandvars function. An attacker can cause significant performance degradation and increased CPU utilization by supplying crafted input containing repetitive or nested environment variable references.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1