CVSS 4.0
6.3 mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2026-3276
Medium (6.3). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
unicodedata.normalize() can take excessive CPU time when processing
specially crafted Unicode input containing long runs of combining characters
with alternating Canonical Combining Class values.
This affects all normalization forms.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-407
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6b505d1f41f8f3ea0fe5a4786d3a8fff1875cfc0
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/90748760d38ca3ac5fc6788a69becab905c95598
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/991224b1e8311c85f198f6dd8208bf8cff7fc26f
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ba785b88add96acbf403d65cb157fb2743a33a32
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c5512bd7c1dc28055660565275012766941d3066