PoC Index

CVE-2024-6232

HIGH 7.5EPSS 2.2%

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.

CVSS v3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 81th percentile
Published
2024-09-03
Updated
2025-11-03

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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