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CVE-2026-112915GHSA-CWQR-HH33-GH44

filelock ReadWriteLock: a crafted lock database makes every acquire stall or hang regardless of timeout

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.2.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 3.20.4 until 4.2.1, ReadWriteLock can open a crafted SQLite lock database without bounding schema and query work, allowing another local user who can replace the database to make acquisition stall or hang; versions from 3.20.4 expose this on initial per-instance opening, and versions from 3.30.0 repeat the exposure on every acquisition. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated
  4. First seen by cve.now

Affected versions

  • tox-dev filelock

    From 3.20.4 · fixed in 4.2.1

  • filelockPyPI

    From 3.20.4 · fixed in 4.2.1

References 4

GitHub · tox-dev/filelock