CVE-2024-6232

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CPython (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to regular expressions used in tarfile.TarFile header parsing, which can cause excessive backtracking and are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives. This can lead to a denial of service. The vulnerability is associated with incorrect syntax analysis of the file header.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.