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CVE-2024-9979

Oct. 16, 2024, 4:38 p.m.

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

PyO3

Description

A flaw was found in PyO3. This vulnerability causes a use-after-free issue, potentially leading to memory corruption or crashes via unsound borrowing from weak Python references.

Weaknesses

CWE-416
Use After Free

Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.

CWE ID: 416

Date

Published: Oct. 15, 2024, 2:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Oct. 16, 2024, 4:38 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score
5.3
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.4
Base Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

https://access.redhat.com/ secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ secalert@redhat.com

https://crates.io/ secalert@redhat.com

https://github.com/ secalert@redhat.com

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