Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting python3 package, versions <3.6.15-150000.3.161.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-PYTHON3-8102446
  • published27 Sept 2024
  • disclosed26 Sept 2024

Introduced: 26 Sep 2024

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 python3 to version 3.6.15-150000.3.161.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3 package and not the python3 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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 Scores

version 3.1