Vulnerabilities > Python > Python > 3.1.4

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2012-08-27 CVE-2011-4944 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in Python
Python 2.6 through 3.2 creates ~/.pypirc with world-readable permissions before changing them after data has been written, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to obtain a username and password by reading this file.
local
python CWE-264
1.9
2012-07-03 CVE-2012-0876 Resource Exhaustion vulnerability in multiple products
The XML parser (xmlparse.c) in expat before 2.1.0 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML file with many identifiers with the same value.
4.3