Description
A refcounting issue which leads to potential memory leak was discovered in scipy commit 8627df31ab in Py_FindObjects() function. Note: This is disputed as a bug and not a vulnerability. SciPy is not designed to be exposed to untrusted users or data directly.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory
http://www.square16.org/achievement/cve-2023-25399/
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/16235
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0039
EPSS Percentile
30.1%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-401
Status
published
Products (2)
pypi/scipy
0 - 1.10.0PyPI
scipy/scipy
< 1.10.0
Published
Jul 05, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026