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.
History

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitpython_project:gitpython:*:*:*:*:*:python:*:*

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Gitpython-developers
Gitpython-developers gitpython
Vendors & Products Gitpython-developers
Gitpython-developers gitpython

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
First Time appeared Gitpython Project
Gitpython Project gitpython
Weaknesses CWE-1333
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitpython_project:gitpython:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Gitpython Project
Gitpython Project gitpython
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published: 2026-09-09T11:21:05.360Z

Updated: 2026-10-08T15:25:57.646Z

Reserved: 2026-09-09T10:32:34.110Z

Link: CVE-2026-87819

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-18T17:17:52.425Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-09-09T12:17:17.120

Modified: 2026-09-18T18:17:34.697

Link: CVE-2026-87819

cve-icon Redhat

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