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.
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2024-09-03. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
Also known asEUVD-2024-48018 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-mmm5-wgvp-wp8r (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
A fix is available — apply it.
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.
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
September 3, 2024
November 3, 2025
Fix merged in python/cpython PR #121286 on 2024-08-31 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286Fix landed in python/cpython commit ed3a49ea734a — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373Fix landed in python/cpython commit d449caf8a179 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbfFix landed in python/cpython commit b4225ca91547 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877Fix landed in python/cpython commit 7d1f50cd92ff — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64dFix landed in python/cpython commit 743acbe87248 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4Fix landed in python/cpython commit 4eaf4891c125 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06Fix landed in python/cpython commit 34ddb64d088d — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34ddb64d088dd7ccc321f6103d23153256caa5d4These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| pypy3 | 7.3.5+dfsg-2, 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u1, 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u2, 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u3, 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u4 |
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| python2.7 | 2.7.18-10 ... 2.7.18-9 (10 versions) |
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| python3.9 | 3.9.2-1, 3.9.2-1+deb11u1 |
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| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| pypy3 | 7.3.11+dfsg-2 ... 7.3.23+dfsg-2 (30 versions) |
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| python3.11 | 3.11.2-6, 3.11.2-6+deb12u1, 3.11.2-6+deb12u2, 3.11.2-6+deb12u3 |
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| pypy3 | — |
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MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
RHBA-2025:6294 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:6909 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:6975 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:7415 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:7647 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8130 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8359 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8374 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8446 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8447 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8490 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8504 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8797 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8836 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8838 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:8977 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:9450 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:9451 — Moderate
RHSA-2024:9468 — Moderate
RHSA-2025:1750 — Moderate
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