Medium severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 4, 2026· Updated May 1, 2026
CVE-2026-2297
CVE-2026-2297
Description
The import hook in CPython that handles legacy *.pyc files (SourcelessFileLoader) is incorrectly handled in FileLoader (a base class) and so does not use io.open_code() to read the .pyc files. sys.audit handlers for this audit event therefore do not fire.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
8- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/05/6nvd
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/482d6f8bdba9da3725d272e8bb4a2d25fb6a603envd
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/69ddd9bb2cc4bd69b1565647c18659c6a789ccd9nvd
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/876858c9f65d9ab656c7fa639f268ce7856d89ddnvd
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/a51b1b512de1d56b3714b65628a2eae2b07e535envd
- github.com/python/cpython/commit/e58e9802b9bec5cdbf48fc9bf1da5f4fda482e86nvd
- github.com/python/cpython/issues/145506nvd
- github.com/python/cpython/pull/145507nvd
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