Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting platform-python-devel package, versions <0:3.6.8-51.el8_8.12


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PLATFORMPYTHONDEVEL-15519150
  • published13 Mar 2026
  • disclosed3 Dec 2025

Introduced: 3 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-12084  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 platform-python-devel to version 0:3.6.8-51.el8_8.12 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2026:2330.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream platform-python-devel package and not the platform-python-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

When building nested elements using xml.dom.minidom methods such as appendChild() that have a dependency on _clear_id_cache() the algorithm is quadratic. Availability can be impacted when building excessively nested documents.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1