vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-6232
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Sep 3, 2024 | Jan 20, 2025 | Sep 2, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 3, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025
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.
Regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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