CVE-2026-5713 (GCVE-0-2026-5713)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-14 15:11 – Updated: 2026-04-15 17:24
VLAI
Title
Out-of-bounds read/write during remote profiling and asyncio process introspection when connecting to malicious target
Summary
The "profiling.sampling" module (Python 3.15+) and "asyncio introspection capabilities" (3.14+, "python -m asyncio ps" and "python -m asyncio pstree") features could be used to read and write addresses in a privileged process if that process connected to a malicious or "infected" Python process via the remote debugging feature. This vulnerability requires persistently and repeatedly connecting to the process to be exploited, even after the connecting process crashes with high likelihood due to ASLR.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Assigner
PSF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 3.14.0 , < 3.15.0 (python)
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Credits
Nicholas Gould (https://github.com/gouldnicholas) Pablo Galindo Salgado Pablo Galindo Salgado
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