cve-2025-4516
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-15 13:29
Modified
2025-06-03 20:53
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Use-after-free in "unicode_escape" decoder with error handler
References
Impacted products
| ▼ | Vendor | Product |
|---|---|---|
| Python Software Foundation | CPython |
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