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High 7.0
webbrowser.open() allows leading dashes in URLs
The webbrowser.open() API would accept leading dashes in the URL which could be handled as command line options for certain web browsers. New behavior rejects leading dashes. Users are recommended to sanitize URLs prior to passing to webbrowser.open().
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Medium 6.0
Stack overflow parsing XML with deeply nested DTD content models
When an Expat parser with a registered ElementDeclHandler parses an inline document type definition containing a deeply nested content model a C stack overflow occurs.
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Medium 6.0
Incomplete control character validation in http.cookies
The fix for CVE-2026-0672, which rejected control characters in http.cookies.Morsel, was incomplete. The Morsel.update(), |= operator, and unpickling paths were not patched, allowing control characters to bypass input validation. Additionally, BaseCookie.js_o…
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Low 2.0
tarfile: Skip DIRTYPE normalization during GNU LONGNAME/LONGLINK handling
The "tarfile" module would still apply normalization of AREGTYPE (\x00) blocks to DIRTYPE, even while processing a multi-block member such as GNUTYPE_LONGNAME or GNUTYPE_LONGLINK. This could result in a crafted tar archive being misinterpreted by the tarfile …
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Medium 5.7
SourcelessFileLoader does not use io.open_code()
The import hook in CPython that handles legacy *.pyc files (SourcelessFileLoader) is incorrectly handled in FileLoader (a base class) and so does not use io.open_code() to read the .pyc files. sys.audit handlers for this audit event therefore do not fire.
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Medium 6.0
email BytesGenerator header injection due to unquoted newlines
The email module, specifically the "BytesGenerator" class, didn’t properly quote newlines for email headers when serializing an email message allowing for header injection when an email is serialized. This is only applicable if using "LiteralHeader" writing h…
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Medium 6.3
base64.b64decode() always accepts "+/" characters, despite setting altchars
When passing data to the b64decode(), standard_b64decode(), and urlsafe_b64decode() functions in the "base64" module the characters "+/" will always be accepted, regardless of the value of "altchars" parameter, typically used to establish an "alternative base…
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Medium 6.0
Header injection in http.cookies.Morsel
When using http.cookies.Morsel, user-controlled cookie values and parameters can allow injecting HTTP headers into messages. Patch rejects all control characters within cookie names, values, and parameters.
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Medium 5.9
POP3 command injection in user-controlled commands
The poplib module, when passed a user-controlled command, can have additional commands injected using newlines. Mitigation rejects commands containing control characters.
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Medium 5.9
IMAP command injection in user-controlled commands
The imaplib module, when passed a user-controlled command, can have additional commands injected using newlines. Mitigation rejects commands containing control characters.
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Medium 6.0
Header injection via newlines in data URL mediatype
User-controlled data URLs parsed by urllib.request.DataHandler allow injecting headers through newlines in the data URL mediatype.
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Medium 5.9
wsgiref.headers.Headers allows header newline injection
User-controlled header names and values containing newlines can allow injecting HTTP headers.
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Medium 5.7
Folding email comments of unfoldable characters doesn't preserve parenthesis
When folding a long comment in an email header containing exclusively unfoldable characters, the parenthesis would not be preserved. This could be used for injecting headers into email messages where addresses are user-controlled and not sanitized.
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Medium 6.3
Quadratic complexity in node ID cache clearing
When building nested elements using xml.dom.minidom methods such as appendChild() that have a dependency on _clear_id_cache() the algorithm is quadratic. Availability can be impacted when building excessively nested documents.
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Low 2.1
Out-of-memory when loading Plist
When loading a plist file, the plistlib module reads data in size specified by the file itself, meaning a malicious file can cause OOM and DoS issues
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Medium 6.3
Excessive read buffering DoS in http.client
When reading an HTTP response from a server, if no read amount is specified, the default behavior will be to use Content-Length. This allows a malicious server to cause the client to read large amounts of data into memory, potentially causing OOM or other DoS.
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Low 1.8
Quadratic complexity in os.path.expandvars() with user-controlled template
If the value passed to os.path.expandvars() is user-controlled a performance degradation is possible when expanding environment variables.
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Medium 4.3
ZIP64 End of Central Directory (EOCD) Locator record offset not checked
The 'zipfile' module would not check the validity of the ZIP64 End of Central Directory (EOCD) Locator record offset value would not be used to locate the ZIP64 EOCD record, instead the ZIP64 EOCD record would be assumed to be the previous record in the ZIP a…
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Medium 5.3
Bypass extraction filter to modify file metadata outside extraction directory
Allows modifying some file metadata (e.g. last modified) with filter="data" or file permissions (chmod) with filter="tar" of files outside the extraction directory. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar ar…
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High 7.5
Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0
When using a TarFile.errorlevel = 0 and extracting with a filter the documented behavior is that any filtered members would be skipped and not extracted. However the actual behavior of TarFile.errorlevel = 0 in affected versions is that the member would still…
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High 7.5CVE-2025-4138 Public exploit
Bypassing extraction filter to create symlinks to arbitrary targets outside extraction directory
Allows the extraction filter to be ignored, allowing symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives u…
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High 7.5
Extraction filter bypass for linking outside extraction directory
Allows the extraction filter to be ignored, allowing symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives u…
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Critical 9.4CVE-2025-4517 Public exploit
Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow
Allows arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter="data". You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall() or TarFile.extract() usin…
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Medium 5.9
Use-after-free in "unicode_escape" decoder with error handler
There is an issue in CPython when using `bytes.decode("unicode_escape", error="ignore|replace")`. If you are not using the "unicode_escape" encoding or an error handler your usage is not affected. To work-around this issue you may stop using the error= handle…