CVE-2026-2297

Severity CVSS v4.0:
MEDIUM
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
04/03/2026
Last modified:
01/05/2026

Description

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.