GitPython before 3.1.60 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Actor.name_email_regex that processes commit author and committer fields. Attackers can craft a commit object …
High CVSS 7.5
Summary
GitPython before 3.1.60 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Actor.name_email_regex that processes commit author and committer fields. Attackers can craft a commit object with a malformed author field containing an unterminated angle bracket to cause quadratic backtracking, exhausting CPU resources for over two minutes per commit access.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
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Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/security/advisories/GHSA-g5vv-9gxw-82hx Exploit
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gitpython-before-3.1.60-denial-of-service-via-redos Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD