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CVE-2024-9979

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

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.21%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1: 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS: 0.21% probability · 11th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-416
Source: secalert@redhat.com

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9979
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2318646
https://crates.io/crates/pyo3
https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/4590
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0378.html

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.