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🛡️ CVE-2026-6879 — libpython

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Quadratic Behavior in xml.etree.ElementPath Index Predicates

Element.findall() and fully-consumed Element.iterfind() exhibit O(n^2) time complexity when using XPath index predicates (e.g. [1], [last()], [last()-N]) on XML documents with many same-tag siblings. Element.find() is only affected when the first match is near the end  of the sibling list, such as with [last()] or [last()-N].//item[1] short-circuits after the first match.

Affected software

CVE-2026-6879 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • libpython
  • python
  • python-min
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 17 August 2026 and last revised on 19 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libpython
python
python-min
unknown

References

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