Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting cpython package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.62% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-CPYTHON-15674494
  • published17 Mar 2026
  • disclosed16 Mar 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-4224  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion in the conv_content_model() function when parsing an inline document type definition containing a deeply nested content model. An attacker can cause a stack overflow and crash the process by providing specially crafted XML input with excessive nesting.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1