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CVE-2024-6232

Reference to the description:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6232

Description:
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.
Last updated date:
02/05/2025
Type:
exploit
Confidence:
HIGH
Date of publishing:
09/04/2024
Reference url to background

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285

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