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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-03-17T12:31:15

Updated: 2024-08-03T20:48:16.368Z

Reserved: 2021-02-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-27291

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-17T13:15:15.137

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:57:45.667

Link: CVE-2021-27291

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-01-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-27291 - Bugzilla