Bug 2373234 (CVE-2025-6069)

Summary: CVE-2025-6069 cpython: Python HTMLParser quadratic complexity
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bbrownin, dfreiber, drow, jburrell, ljawale, luizcosta, nweather, rbobbitt, vkumar
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A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in Python's html.parser.HTMLParser class. When processing specially malformed HTML input, the parsing runtime can become quadratic with respect to the input size. This significantly increased processing time can lead to excessive resource consumption, ultimately causing a denial-of-service condition in applications that rely on this parser.
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Bug Depends On: 2373243, 2373244, 2373252, 2373236, 2373237, 2373238, 2373240, 2373241, 2373242, 2373245, 2373246, 2373247, 2373248, 2373249, 2373250, 2373251, 2373253    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-17 16:12:16 UTC
The html.parser.HTMLParser class had worse-case quadratic complexity when processing certain crafted malformed inputs potentially leading to amplified denial-of-service.