CVE-2024-6232
HighPublic PoC
Published: 03 September 2024
Published
03 September 2024
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0301
86.9th percentile
Risk Priority
17
60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS
Summary
CVE-2024-6232 is a high-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Python Python. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 13.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-48018
Vulnerability details
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.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
python
python
3.13.0 · ≤ 3.8.20 · 3.9.0 — 3.9.20 · 3.10.0 — 3.10.15
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.