CVE-2024-11168mediumCWE-918

CVE-2024-11168: medium-severity vulnerability in Python Software Foundation CPython

Improper validation of IPv6 and IPvFuture addresses

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6.3epss 0.7%
The urllib.parse.urlsplit() and urlparse() functions improperly validated bracketed hosts (`[]`), allowing hosts that weren't IPv6 or IPvFuture. This behavior was not conformant to RFC 3986 and potentially enabled SSRF if a URL is processed by more than one URL parser.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N/AU:N
Affected products
Python Software Foundation · CPython
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