CVE-2025-6069 Affecting python-curses package, versions <2.7.18-150000.80.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-PYTHONCURSES-10879239
  • published23 Jul 2025
  • disclosed22 Jul 2025

Introduced: 22 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-6069  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 python-curses to version 2.7.18-150000.80.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-curses package and not the python-curses package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 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