Insufficient Entropy Affecting cpython package, versions [0,]
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- published12 May 2026
- disclosed11 May 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 11 May 2026
CVE-2026-7210 (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 Insufficient Entropy in the xml.parsers.expat and xml.etree.ElementTree components. An attacker can cause excessive CPU consumption and degrade service availability by submitting specially crafted XML documents designed to trigger hash collisions during parsing.
Note:
Fully mitigating this vulnerability requires both updating libexpat to 2.8.0 or later and applying this patch.