CVE-2026-55244

ASTEVAL is an evaluator of Python expressions and statements. Prior to 1.0.9, FROM_PY in asteval/astutils.py exposes BaseException, SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt, and GeneratorExit to expressions evaluated by asteval.Interpreter.eval(), while run() and eval() in asteval/asteval.py catch Exception rather than these non-Exception BaseException subclasses. When an attacker-controlled expression raises one of these classes, on_raise() passes the class to raise_exception(), and the resulting exception bypasses the interpreter's safety handlers and propagates into the calling application. A consuming service that evaluates untrusted expressions can therefore be terminated or have signal and cleanup handling disrupted, causing denial of service. The separately documented read-only open() capability is not part of this vulnerability. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.9.

• CWE-248

• https://github.com/lmfit/asteval/commit/9c625b3674f8d05f206708bb85afca17a87694a4
• https://github.com/lmfit/asteval/commit/c49c99a67acb63eb7410231932250bd820380e45
• https://github.com/lmfit/asteval/pull/153
• https://github.com/lmfit/asteval/releases/tag/1.0.9
• https://github.com/lmfit/asteval/security/advisories/GHSA-89v8-rhwq-hf77
• https://github.com/lmfit/asteval/security/advisories/GHSA-89v8-rhwq-hf77

Published

Sep 14, 2026

Last Modified

Sep 16, 2026

Status

Received

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