HIGHVulnerability
CVE-2026-87819
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.
Properties
- severity
- HIGH
- score
- 7.5
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-87819
- signal_observed_at
- 2026-09-17T21:32:24+00:00
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- published_at
- 2026-09-09T12:17:17.120
- last_modified
- 2026-09-16T15:12:26.813
Related Entities (3)
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)
→[Product]
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