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CVE-2026-4519
Score 3.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-03-20. NVD baseline CVSS 3.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 3.3
- EG Score
- 3.3(medium)
- EPSS
- 22.7%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 20, 2026
Last Modified
June 30, 2026
References (71)
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3681d47a440865aead912a054d4599087b4270dd
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/43fe06b96f6a6cf5cfd5bdab20b8649374956866
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/591ed890270c5697b013bf637029fb3e6cd2d73e
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/594b5a05dc9913880ac92eded440defbf32a28d1
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/82a24a4442312bdcfc4c799885e8b3e00990f02b
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/89bfb8e5ed3c7caa241028f1a4eac5f6275a46a4
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9669a912a0e329c094e992204d6bdb8787024d76
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/96fc5048605863c7b6fd6289643feb0e97edd96c
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ad4d5ba32af4d80b0dfa2ba9d8203bfb219e60a5
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cbba6119391112aba9c5aebf7b94aea447922c48
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cc023511238ad93ecc8796157c6f9139a2bb2932
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ceac1efc66516ac387eef2c9a0ce671895b44f03
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/issues/143930
- cna@pythonhttps://github.com/python/cpython/pull/143931
- cna@pythonhttps://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/AY5NDSS433JK56Q7Q5IS7B37QFZVVOUS/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-4519(20)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:25096Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference Server Model Optimization Tools 3.2.2 (cuda)
- CVE-2026-4519Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)High
webbrowser.open() allows leading dashes in URLs
- RHSA-2026:21275Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5.1 security update
- RHSA-2026:19725Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2.2 (ROCm)
- RHSA-2026:19724Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2.2 (CUDA)
- RHSA-2026:19216Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.9 security update
- RHSA-2026:19176Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.14 security update
- RHSA-2026:19177Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.12 security update
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Patch Availability(30)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(7)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2026:10101IMPORTANT2026-03-20
RHSA-2026:10101 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:10102IMPORTANT2026-03-20
RHSA-2026:10102 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:10111IMPORTANT2026-03-20
RHSA-2026:10111 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:6016IMPORTANT2026-03-20
RHSA-2026:6016 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:6035IMPORTANT2026-03-20
RHSA-2026:6035 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:6256IMPORTANT2026-03-20
RHSA-2026:6256 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:6281IMPORTANT2026-03-20
RHSA-2026:6281 — Important
Data Freshness Timeline
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- 2026-06-10 18:15 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-05-20 20:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-05-20 20:53 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-05-20 20:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-05-20 11:22 UTCEPSS rescore
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