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CVE-2025-15282

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-15282 is a medium-severity vulnerability in urllib.request.DataHandler that allows attackers to inject headers into data URLs through newlines in the mediatype field. While no specific affected products are listed, it impacts Python environments utilizing this component. The attack vector is network-based with low attack complexity, and successful exploitation could lead to information integrity issues. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is it listed in CISA's KEV catalog, but it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness and potential future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0, < 3.10.20CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.11.0, < 3.11.15CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.12.0, < 3.12.13CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.13.0, < 3.13.12CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.14.0, < 3.14.3CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

6.0MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
LOW
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 48th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (23)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: firefox
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: python3.12
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: python3.14
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: python
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: python
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: python3
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: firefox
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: python3
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: python3.11
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: python3.12
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: python36:3.6/python36
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: python39-devel:3.9/python39
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: firefox
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: python3.11
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: python3.12
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: python3.14
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: python3.9
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3Fixed in: rhelai3/bootc-aws-cuda-rhel9
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3Fixed in: rhelai3/bootc-azure-cuda-rhel9
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3Fixed in: rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3Fixed in: rhelai3/bootc-gcp-cuda-rhel9
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Hardened ImagesFixed in: python3

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2025-15282Moderate

cpython: Header injection via newlines in data URL mediatype in Python

Jan 20, 2026

References

github.com / python/cpython/commit/05356b1cc153108aaf27f3b72ce438af4aa218c0
github.com / python/cpython/commit/34d76b00dabde81a793bd06dd8ecb057838c4b38
github.com / python/cpython/commit/3f396ca9d7bbe2a50ea6b8c9b27c0082884d9f80
github.com / python/cpython/commit/4ed11d3cd288e6b90196a15c5a825a45d318fe47
github.com / python/cpython/commit/a35ca3be5842505dab74dc0b90b89cde0405017a
github.com / python/cpython/commit/f25509e78e8be6ea73c811ac2b8c928c28841b9f
github.com / python/cpython/issues/143925
github.com / python/cpython/pull/143926
mail.python.org / archives/list/[email protected]/thread/X66HL7SISGJT33J53OHXMZT4DFLMHVKF