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CVE-2025-8291VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.12 security update

Affects Red Hat python3.12Source GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-8291· Medium 4.3

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.3 Medium.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 18:17 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
4.3Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 7 Oct 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 5 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released an official update for python3.12 rebased to version 3.12.12 that addresses this vulnerability. Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 should apply the update as described in the Red Hat advisory (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate the issue. Since an official fix is available, applying the update is the recommended mitigation.

Description

A moderate severity security vulnerability (CVE-2025-8291) affects the Python 3.12 zipfile module in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. The issue involves the End of Central Directory (EOCD) Locator record offset not being checked, which could lead to potential security risks. Red Hat has released an update rebasing python3.12 to version 3.12.12 to address this flaw.

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