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CVE record · CVE-2026-114583

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CVSS 6.9 MediumEPSS 0.0026 · 18th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: PSF) at 22 Oct 2026, 20:57 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Python Software Foundation CPython
  • affected before 3.11.18 python
  • affected 3.12.0 to before 3.12.16 python
  • affected 3.13.0 to before 3.13.18 python
  • affected 3.14.0 to before 3.14.10 python
  • affected 3.15.0 to before 3.15.2 python
  • affected 3.16.0a1 to before 3.16.0 python
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-114583
CNA
PSF
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Tags
Published
22 Oct 2026
Updated
2 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.9 Medium 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (PSF)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0026, the 18th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 22 Oct 2026, 20:57 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 22 Oct 2026, 21:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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