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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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
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-03-17T13:15:15.137
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:57:45.667
Link: CVE-2021-27291
Redhat