Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting tkinter package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TKINTER-10387186
  • published18 Jun 2025
  • disclosed17 Jun 2025

Introduced: 17 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-6069  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 tkinter.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tkinter package and not the tkinter package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The html.parser.HTMLParser class had worse-case quadratic complexity when processing certain crafted malformed inputs potentially leading to amplified denial-of-service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1