Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting pypy3 package, versions <7.3.18+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.2% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PYPY3-10773558
  • published18 Jul 2025
  • disclosed3 Sept 2024

Introduced: 3 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-6232  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable pypy3 to version 7.3.18+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pypy3 package and not the pypy3 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable 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 Base Scores

version 3.1