Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-10735 - Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast vulnerability in multiple products

Summary

A flaw was found in python. In algorithms with quadratic time complexity using non-binary bases, when using int("text"), a system could take 50ms to parse an int string with 100,000 digits and 5s for 1,000,000 digits (float, decimal, int.from_bytes(), and int() for binary bases 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 are not affected). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

• CWE-704 - Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

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