CVE-2025-6069

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

17/06/2025

Last modified:

07/07/2025

Description

The html.parser.HTMLParser class had worse-case quadratic complexity when processing certain crafted malformed inputs potentially leading to amplified denial-of-service.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

4.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4455cbabf991e202185a25a631af206f60bbc949
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6eb6c5dbfb528bd07d77b60fd71fd05d81d45c41
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8d1b3dfa09135affbbf27fb8babcf3c11415df49
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ab0893fd5c579d9cea30841680e6d35fc478afb5
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d851f8e258c7328814943e923a7df81bca15df4b
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f3c6f882cddc8dc30320d2e73edf019e201394fc
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fdc9d214c01cb4588f540cfa03726bbf2a33fc15
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/135462
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/135464
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/K5PIYLR6EP3WR7ZOKKYQUWEDNQVUXOYM/