CVE record · CVE-2026-18503

Super-linear CPU usage for unbounded input to csv.Sniffer.sniff()

CVSS 2.4 LowEPSS 0.0012 · 1st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: PSF) at 10 Aug 2026, 13:45 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 3.10.21 python
  • affected 3.11.0 to before 3.11.16 python
  • affected 3.12.0 to before 3.12.14 python
  • affected 3.13.0 to before 3.13.15 python
  • affected 3.14.0 to before 3.14.7 python
  • affected 3.15.0a1 to before 3.15.0rc1 python
  • affected 3.16.0a1 to before 3.16.0 python
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-18503
CNA
PSF
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1176
Published
10 Aug 2026
Updated
14 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
2.4 Low 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (PSF)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0012, the 1st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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