Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 3, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025
Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers
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 products
1- Range: 0
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
10- github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4mitrepatch
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06mitrepatch
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4mitrepatch
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64dmitrepatch
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877mitrepatch
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbfmitrepatch
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373mitrepatch
- github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286mitrepatch
- mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/mitrevendor-advisory
- github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285mitreissue-tracking
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