Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input Affecting cpython package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-CPYTHON-16032304
  • published15 Apr 2026
  • disclosed10 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-3446  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1286  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-231  (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 Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input in the base64 decoder. An attacker can cause the processing of incomplete data by supplying base64-encoded input with additional data after the first padding character, which is ignored during decoding. This may result in inconsistent data handling or integrity issues across different implementations.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be avoided by using "validate=True".

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1