Issued at: 2026-05-29
Updated at: 2026-05-30
Synopsis
Important: python-gevent security update
Description
gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of libevent event loop. Features include: * convenient API around greenlets * familiar synchronization primitives (gevent.event, gevent.queue) * socket module that cooperates * WSGI server on top of libevent-http * DNS requests done through libevent-dns * monkey patching utility to get pure Python modules to cooperate
Security Fix(es):
* python-gevent: privilege escalation via a crafted script to the WSGIServer component (CVE-2023-41419)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.