Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting python-3.13 package, versions <3.13.2-r6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.2% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-PYTHON313-15411868
  • published5 Mar 2026
  • disclosed3 Sept 2024

Introduced: 3 Sep 2024

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi python-3.13 to version 3.13.2-r6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-3.13 package and not the python-3.13 package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi 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 Base Scores

version 3.1