CVE-2026-87819
highGitPython before 3.1.60 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Actor.name_email_regex that processes commit author and committer fiel…
Vendor / product: Gitpython Project — gitpython
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.
CVSS
7.5
7.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (disclosure@vulncheck.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-09 12:17
Modified: 2026-09-18 18:17
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:52 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
gitpython_project / gitpython <3.1.60
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
References
- https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/security/advisories/GHSA-g5vv-9gxw-82hx disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gitpython-before-3.1.60-denial-of-service-via-redos disclosure@vulncheck.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:52 UTC · record ↗