onyx --cves cve-2024-6232
CVE-2024-6232
- score
- <0.1
- cvss
- 7.5
- epss
- 2.2%
- published
- 2024-09-03
- kev added
- —
- first seen
CPython contains a regular expression vulnerability causing excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing, letting attackers craft tar archives to cause denial of service, exploit requires attacker to provide malicious tar archive.
Timeline
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- Published
- Tracked by Onyx
- Public PoC
Exploit availability
Public PoC flagged by vulnx; no direct exploit link among the citations.
Weaknesses
References 13
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/5
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0007/
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4