CVE-2024-6232

Vulnerability ID

CVE-2024-6232

Severity

HIGH

Severity Score

7.5

Summary

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.

References

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877

Mitigation and Patches

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373

Exploits

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285

Metasploit Payload

-

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE ID

CWE-1333

CVE-2024-6232

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