CVE-2024-6232

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-1333, CWE-1333

References

• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d…
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd0…
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c…
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64…
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc87…
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fb…