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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.7 High

CVE-2026-87819

GitPython before 3.1.60 Denial of Service via ReDoS

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

gitpython-developers GitPython

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 3.1.60affected
  • 3.1.60unaffected
pkg:pypi/gitpython

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