Security Advisory

CVE-2024-3219

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-07-29 21:54:05
Last updated 2025-05-02 23:02:58
Assigner PSF
State PUBLISHED

Description

The “socket” module provides a pure-Python fallback to the socket.socketpair() function for platforms that don’t support AF_UNIX, such as Windows. This pure-Python implementation uses AF_INET or AF_INET6 to create a local connected pair of sockets. The connection between the two sockets was not verified before passing the two sockets back to the user, which leaves the server socket vulnerable to a connection race from a malicious local peer. Platforms that support AF_UNIX such as Linux and macOS are not affected by this vulnerability. Versions prior to CPython 3.5 are not affected due to the vulnerable API not being included.