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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.

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