🛡️ CVE-2024-6232 on Debian — pypy3

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-6232 as tracked by Debian, for the package pypy3. The fix is available in version 7.3.18+dfsg-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-6232 is recorded against 5 packages.

pypy3 (fixed in 7.3.18+dfsg-1)
python2.7
python3.11 (fixed in 3.11.2-6+deb12u4)
python3.13 (fixed in 3.13.0~rc2-1)
python3.9 (fixed in 3.9.2-1+deb11u2)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 September 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2024-6232 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2024-09-03

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-08-04

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
pypy3	—	7.3.18+dfsg-1
python2.7	—	—
python3.11	—	3.11.2-6+deb12u4
python3.13	—	3.13.0~rc2-1
python3.9	—	3.9.2-1+deb11u2

References

ADVISORY https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-6232

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