CVE-2026-87819 PUBLISHED

GitPython before 3.1.60 Denial of Service via ReDoS

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 09.09.2026 Published: 09.09.2026 Updated: 09.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor gitpython-developers
Product GitPython
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.1.60 (excl.)
  • Version 3.1.60 is unaffected

Credits

  • prvazsahnazarov reporter
  • manus-use reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity CWE