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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2025-6075

Low
1.8/10

Summary

The cpython versions through v3.8.20, v3.9.0 through v3.9.24, v3.10.0 through v3.10.19, v3.11.0 through v3.11.14, v3.12.0 through v3.12.12, v3.13.0 through v3.13.9, v3.14.0 through v3.14.0-rc3 and v3.15.0a1.The fixed versions are v3.9 and v3.9.25. Here, 3.9 is not the same as 3.9.0. If the value passed to "os.path.expandvars()" is user-controlled, a performance degradation is possible when expanding the environment variables.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published