Quick answers
- Is CVE-2024-4340 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2024-4340 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2024-4340?
- Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3.1, published 7 July 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- sqlparse (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.5.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2024-4340?
- Yes. sqlparse (PyPI): upgrade to 0.5.0 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2024-4340 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network.
- Am I affected by CVE-2024-4340?
- Check whether you run sqlparse (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
How to fix
- sqlparse (PyPI): upgrade to 0.5.0 or later
pip install "sqlparse>=0.5.0"
Technical details
The vulnerability is an uncontrolled recursion flaw (CWE-674) in the flatten() method of the TokenList class. When parsing heavily nested bracket structures (e.g., thousands of nested square brackets), the recursive flatten() function is called repeatedly without depth limits, exhausting the call stack and raising a RecursionError. The attack vector is network-based with no authentication or user interaction required—any caller of sqlparse.parse() with attacker-controlled input can trigger the crash. The fix, available in version 0.5.0, implements a maximum recursion depth check that raises an exception before stack exhaustion occurs.
Affected products
- sqlparse sqlparse before 0.5.0
Identifiers
- CVE-2024-4340
- GHSA-2m57-hf25-phgg
- PYSEC-2026-1940
Timeline
- 2024-04-15: disclosed
- 2024-04-15: patched: Fix released in version 0.5.0