High
Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-6232
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 00:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 3 Sept 2024, 12:29 UTC
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.
osv:CVE-2024-6232
Complete source record
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