CVE•Published 2026-06-23•Modified 2026-10-25•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-11972

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

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EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 47% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-252Unchecked Return Value CWE-606Unchecked Input for Loop Condition CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Description

When using the "tarfile" module with a file opened in "streaming mode" (mode="r|") the tarfile module did not properly handle EOF, making archive parsing take exponentially longer.

Timeline

Published 2026-06-23

Modified 2026-10-25

External references

NVD MITRE GitHub PoC VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2026-11972

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2026-11972

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-11972

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

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CVE-2026-11972