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CVE-2024-5642

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2024-06-27 Modified: 2026-07-31

Description

CPython 3.9 and earlier doesn't disallow configuring an empty list ("[]") for SSLContext.set_npn_protocols() which is an invalid value for the underlying OpenSSL API. This results in a buffer over-read when NPN is used (see CVE-2024-5535 for OpenSSL). This vulnerability is of low severity due to NPN being not widely used and specifying an empty list likely being uncommon in-practice (typically a protocol name would be configured).

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

Unknown

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