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.

How to fix CVE-2024-6232

To remediate CVE-2024-6232, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

Alpine/python3—upgrade to 3.10.15-r0 or later
—upgrade to 3.8.20 or later
—upgrade to 3.8.20 or later
—upgrade to 3.8.20 or later
—upgrade to 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u5 or later
—no fix listed
—upgrade to 3.11.2-6+deb12u4 or later
—upgrade to 3.13.0~rc2-1 or later
—upgrade to 3.9.2-1+deb11u2 or later

Is CVE-2024-6232 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 3.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (9)

from 0, < 3.10.15-r0
from 0, < 3.8.20, >= 3.9.0, < 3.9.20, >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.15, >= 3.11.0, < 3.11.10, >= 3.12.0, < 3.12.6
from 0, < 3.8.20, >= 3.9.0, < 3.9.20, >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.15, >= 3.11.0, < 3.11.10, >= 3.12.0, < 3.12.6
from 0, < 3.8.20, >= 3.9.0, < 3.9.20, >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.15, >= 3.11.0, < 3.11.10, >= 3.12.0, < 3.12.6
from 0, < 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u5
from 0
from 0, < 3.11.2-6+deb12u4
from 0, < 3.13.0~rc2-1
from 0, < 3.9.2-1+deb11u2

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H