Upstream information

CVE-2026-55244 at MITRE

Description

ASTEVAL is an evaluator of Python expressions and statements. Prior to 1.0.9, FROM_PY in asteval/astutils.py exposes BaseException, SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt, and GeneratorExit to expressions evaluated by asteval.Interpreter.eval(), while run() and eval() in asteval/asteval.py catch Exception rather than these non-Exception BaseException subclasses. When an attacker-controlled expression raises one of these classes, on_raise() passes the class to raise_exception(), and the resulting exception bypasses the interpreter's safety handlers and propagates into the calling application. A consuming service that evaluates untrusted expressions can therefore be terminated or have signal and cleanup handling disrupted, causing denial of service. The separately documented read-only open() capability is not part of this vulnerability. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.9.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub)
Base Score 5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1236405 [IN_PROGRESS]

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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7
  • python311-asteval >= 1.0.6-bp157.2.3.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-2026-329
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • python313-asteval >= 1.0.9-1.1
  • python314-asteval >= 1.0.9-1.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2026-11420


Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 python-asteval Released


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jul 31 21:37:40 2026
CVE page last modified: Mon Sep 21 13:54:00 2026