CVE-2025-4516 Affecting python3.6 package, versions <3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1.13+esm5


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-PYTHON36-10180245
  • published17 Jun 2025
  • disclosed15 May 2025

Introduced: 15 May 2025

CVE-2025-4516  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 python3.6 to version 3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1.13+esm5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3.6 package and not the python3.6 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is an issue in CPython when using bytes.decode(&#34;unicode_escape&#34;, error=&#34;ignore|replace&#34;). If you are not using the "unicode_escape" encoding or an error handler your usage is not affected. To work-around this issue you may stop using the error= handler and instead wrap the bytes.decode() call in a try-except catching the DecodeError.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1