Description
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.
Published: 2021-03-17
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 3.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2600-1 pygments security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2648-1 mediawiki security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2648-2 mediawiki regression update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4878-1 pygments security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4889-1 mediawiki security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-0208 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-pq64-v7f5-gqh8 Pygments vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4897-1 Pygments vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4897-2 Pygments vulnerabilities
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Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Pygments Pygments
Redhat Ansible Automation Platform Enterprise Linux Rhel Software Collections
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

Reserved: 2021-02-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-27291

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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

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