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.
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Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:30:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | GitPython before 3.1.60 Denial of Service via ReDoS | |
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Gitpython Project
Gitpython Project gitpython |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-1333 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:gitpython_project:gitpython:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Gitpython Project
Gitpython Project gitpython |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published: 2026-09-09T11:21:05.360Z
Updated: 2026-09-09T11:21:05.360Z
Reserved: 2026-09-09T10:32:34.110Z
Link: CVE-2026-87819
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-09-09T12:17:17.120
Modified: 2026-09-09T20:41:07.123
Link: CVE-2026-87819
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