Simple view on vulnerability status of Python versions

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I’m looking for a simple view on the vulnerability status of python versions. Essentially something like Vulnerability Charts (but that page hasn’t been updated in two months, which is a long time for security). Is there some official place where I can easily see whether a specific version has vulnerabilities?

I’m aware that information is tracked at GitHub - psf/advisory-database: This is a repository of vulnerability advisories for projects in scope for the Python Software Foundation CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) · GitHub and there is OpenCVE, but retrieving the aggregated information is a bit cumbersome.

I’m also aware that I have to audit my whole environment for vulerabilities (and do that), still it would be nice to get the question “Is Python 3.14 currently considered vulnerability free” answered easily.

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I’m also aware that I have to audit my whole environment for vulerabilities (and do that), still it would be nice to get the question “Is Python 3.14 currently considered vulnerability free” answered easily.

Hopefully you mean free of known vulnerabilities, since all software everywhere is pretty much always guaranteed to have security vulnerabilities of a sort, whether someone is aware of them yet or no.

Even then, you’ll need to think about what you mean by “known” too… most large software projects following coordinated vulnerability disclosure processes have at least some at any given time which were reported to them in private and fixes are still secretly under development, so these are known to the reporter and the vulnerability managers and developers and, after a time, quietly disclosed to downstream package maintainers in popular distributions so that they can prepare to ship the fixes.

And then it comes down to where you get your Python interpreter/stdlib from. If you’re relying on a packaged CPython build from a distribution then they have likely backported security fixes to the version they ship rather than just upgrading to the latest upstream sources. The same Python “version” from Debian, Red Hat, or Ubuntu likely each have different vulnerabilities, and it’s the distributor who needs to supply you with a list of what has been fixed in the package they provided you.

So all that’s a long-winded way of saying that part of why you aren’t finding a simple matrix of “what you’re vulnerable to” is that it’s not an easy question to answer, and it depends a lot on your situation.

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Let me rephrase more precisely: I would like to know whether there are any published vulnerabilities (i.e. based on publically available CVE data) for the Python versions released on Download Python | Python.org.