In pygments 1.1+, fixed in 2.7.4, the lexers used to parse programming languages rely heavily on regular expressions. Some of the regular expressions have exponential or cubic worst-case complexity and are vulnerable to ReDoS. By crafting malicious input, an attacker can cause a denial of service.
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Information
Published : 2021-03-17 13:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 05:57
NVD link : CVE-2021-27291
Mitre link : CVE-2021-27291
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-27291
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Products Affected
pygments
- pygments
debian
- debian_linux
fedoraproject
- fedora
CWE
CWE-1333
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity