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Python has 229 published vulnerabilities across 35 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Python, with 130. If you run Python software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Python products have the most vulnerabilities?

Python leads with 130 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

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Which Python vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Python's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Python flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 95%

    OpenSSL before 0.9.8za, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0m, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1h does not properly restrict processing of ChangeCipherSpec messages, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of a zero-length master...

    CVSS7.4Published5 Jun 2014
  2. 95%

    The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to...

    CVSS7.5Published1 Sep 2016
  3. 52%

    zlib before 1.2.12 allows memory corruption when deflating (i.e., when compressing) if the input has many distant matches.

    CVSS7.5Published25 Mar 2022
  4. 41%

    The package python/cpython from 0 and before 3.6.13, from 3.7.0 and before 3.7.10, from 3.8.0 and before 3.8.8, from 3.9.0 and before 3.9.2 are vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning via urllib.parse.parse_qsl and...

    CVSS5.9Published15 Feb 2021
  5. 28%

    Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string.

    CVSS7.5Published1 Mar 2014
  6. 28%

    The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application...

    CVSS5.0Published3 Nov 2009
  7. 27%

    Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a ..

    CVSS9.8Published28 Aug 2007
  8. 25%

    Integer overflow in the get_data function in zipimport.c in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.12, 3.x before 3.4.5, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a negative data size...

    CVSS9.8Published2 Sep 2016
  9. 25%

    The CGIHTTPServer module in Python 2.7.5 and 3.3.4 does not properly handle URLs in which URL encoding is used for path separators, which allows remote attackers to read script source code or conduct directory...

    CVSS9.8Published20 Feb 2020
  10. 24%

    Python 3.x through 3.9.1 has a buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c, which may lead to remote code execution in certain Python applications that accept floating-point numbers as untrusted input, as...

    CVSS9.8Published19 Jan 2021
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Our catalogue lists 229 published vulnerabilities across 35 products and 1,728 versions from Python.

None of Python's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Python, with 130 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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