Unrated
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Python 3.11 through 3.11.4. If a path containing '\0' bytes is passed to os.path.normpath(), the path will be truncated unexpectedly at the first '\0' byte. There are plausible cases in which an application would have rejected a filename for security reasons in Python 3.10.x or earlier, but that filename is no longer rejected in Python 3.11.x.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-41105
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 01:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Python 3.11 through 3.11.4. If a path containing '\0' bytes is passed to os.path.normpath(), the path will be truncated unexpectedly at the first '\0' byte. There are plausible cases in which an application would have rejected a filename for security reasons in Python 3.10.x or earlier, but that filename is no longer rejected in Python 3.11.x.
osv:CVE-2023-41105
Complete source record
{
"id": "e5d80082351c6fd2092210525ef22ad992e59f084cdb499fa707b06ad0af15eb",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-41105",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2023-41105",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in Python 3.11 through 3.11.4. If a path containing '\\0' bytes is passed to os.path.normpath(), the path will be truncated unexpectedly at the first '\\0' byte. There are plausible cases in which an application would have rejected a filename for security reasons in Python 3.10.x or earlier, but that filename is no longer rejected in Python 3.11.x.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-41105",
"products": [],
"severity": "unknown",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2023-41105",
"aliases": [
"BIT-libpython-2023-41105",
"BIT-python-2023-41105",
"BIT-python-min-2023-41105",
"CVE-2023-41105",
"PSF-2023-9"
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/python/cpython",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "deaf509e8fc6e0363bd6f26d52ad42f976ec42f2"
},
{
"last_affected": "d2340ef25721b6a72d45d4508c672c4be38c67d3"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "3.11"
},
{
"last_affected": "3.11.4"
}
],
"source": "DESCRIPTION"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "3.11.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "3.11.4"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}
}
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-41105.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:32.579847184Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce%40python.org/thread/D6CDW3ZZC5D444YGL3VQUY6D4ECMCQLD/",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/41xxx/CVE-2023-41105.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41105",
"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0015/",
"https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/106242",
"https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/107981",
"https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/107982",
"https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/107983"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"cna_assigner": "mitre",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/41xxx/CVE-2023-41105.json"
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2023-41105",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": null
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 499448,
"published_at": "2023-08-23T00:00:00+00:00"
}