GHSA-36hh-v3qg-5jq4HighDisclosed before NVD

PyO3 has an Out-of-bounds Read in `nth` / `nth_back` for `PyList` and `PyTuple` iterators

Published
June 12, 2026
Last Modified
June 12, 2026

📋 Description

PyO3 0.24.0 added optimized implementations of Iterator::nth and DoubleEndedIterator::nth_back for the BoundListIterator and BoundTupleIterator types. These implementations computed the target index using unchecked usize addition (index + n) before bounds-checking against the sequence length, then read the element via get_item_unchecked.

In nth methods, a sufficiently large n (combined with a non-zero internal index) could cause the addition to overflow and wrap around, producing a small "target index" that passed the bounds check and enabling reads at the front of the list or tuple of elements previously yielded by the iterator.

In nth_back methods, a sufficiently large n could cause underflow in a similar fashion, however would instead allow reads of arbitrary memory past the end of the list or tuple storage.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/pyo3:< 0.29.0

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