Resource management error in Python - CVE-2025-6069
Published: August 7, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU113739
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6069
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Python.org
Affected software:
Python
Python
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the html.parser.HTMLParser class. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-6069
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- 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/