CVE-2024-12254

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12254
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-12254.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-12254
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-12-06T15:19:41.576Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:30:44.469253389Z
Severity
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Unbounded memory buffering in SelectorSocketTransport.writelines()
Details

Starting in Python 3.12.0, the asyncio._SelectorSocketTransport.writelines() method would not "pause" writing and signal to the Protocol to drain the buffer to the wire once the write buffer reached the "high-water mark". Because of this, Protocols would not periodically drain the write buffer potentially leading to memory exhaustion.

This vulnerability likely impacts a small number of users, you must be using Python 3.12.0 or later, on macOS or Linux, using the asyncio module with protocols, and using .writelines() method which had new zero-copy-on-write behavior in Python 3.12.0 and later. If not all of these factors are true then your usage of Python is unaffected.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400",
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/12xxx/CVE-2024-12254.json",
    "cna_assigner": "PSF"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python/cpython

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python/cpython
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Introduced
60403a5409ff2c3f3b07dd2ca91a7a3e096839c7
Introduced
b092705907c758d4f9742028652c9802f9f03dd3
Fixed
fdb81425a9ad683f8c24bf5cbedc9b96baf00cd2
Fixed
4f8bb3947cfbc20f970ff9d9531e1132a9e95396
Fixed
26d485d12255a10a8e965b561e7d8a70a732ec69
Fixed
71e8429ac8e2adc10084ab5ec29a62f4b6671a82
Fixed
9aa0deb2eef2655a1029ba228527b152353135b5
Fixed
e991ac8f2037d78140e417cc9a9486223eb3e786
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.12.9"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "3.13.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.13.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "3.14.0a1"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.14.0a3"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.9.8
v0.9.9
v1.*
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.1
v1.1.1
v1.2
v1.2b1
v1.2b2
v1.2b3
v1.2b4
v1.3
v1.3b1
v1.4
v1.4b1
v1.4b2
v1.4b3
v1.5
v1.5.1
v1.5.2
v1.5.2a1
v1.5.2a2
v1.5.2b1
v1.5.2b2
v1.5.2c1
v1.5a1
v1.5a2
v1.5a3
v1.5a4
v1.5b1
v1.5b2
v1.6a1
v1.6a2
v2.*
v2.0
v2.0b1
v2.0b2
v2.0c1
v2.1
v2.1a1
v2.1a2
v2.1b1
v2.1b2
v2.1c1
v2.1c2
v2.2a3
v2.3c1
v2.3c2
v2.4
v2.4a1
v2.4a2
v2.4a3
v2.4b1
v2.4b2
v2.4c1
v3.*
v3.0a1
v3.0a2
v3.0a3
v3.0a4
v3.0a5
v3.0b1
v3.0b2
v3.0b3
v3.0rc1
v3.0rc2
v3.0rc3
v3.1
v3.10.0a1
v3.10.0a7
v3.11.0a3
v3.11.0a4
v3.11.0a5
v3.11.0a6
v3.11.0a7
v3.11.0b1
v3.12.0
v3.12.0a1
v3.12.0a2
v3.12.0a3
v3.12.0a4
v3.12.0a5
v3.12.0a6
v3.12.0a7
v3.12.0b1
v3.12.0b2
v3.12.0b3
v3.12.0b4
v3.12.0rc1
v3.12.0rc2
v3.12.0rc3
v3.12.1
v3.12.2
v3.12.3
v3.12.4
v3.12.5
v3.12.6
v3.12.7
v3.12.8
v3.13.0
v3.13.0a1
v3.13.0a2
v3.13.0a3
v3.13.0a4
v3.13.0a5
v3.13.0a6
v3.13.0b1
v3.13.1
v3.14.0a1
v3.14.0a2
v3.14.0b1
v3.14.0b2
v3.1a1
v3.1a2
v3.1b1
v3.1rc1
v3.1rc2
v3.2a1
v3.2a2
v3.2a3
v3.2a4
v3.2b1
v3.2b2
v3.2rc1
v3.2rc2
v3.2rc3
v3.3.0a2
v3.3.0a3
v3.3.0a4
v3.3.0b1
v3.3.0b2
v3.3.0rc1
v3.3.0rc2
v3.3.0rc3
v3.4.0a1
v3.4.0a2
v3.4.0a3
v3.4.0a4
v3.4.0b1
v3.4.0b2
v3.4.0b3
v3.5.0a1
v3.5.0a2
v3.5.0a3
v3.5.0a4
v3.5.0b1
v3.6.0a3
v3.6.0b1
v3.7.0a2
v3.9.0a2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-12254.json"