Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting awx package, versions <24.6.1-r64


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-AWX-20393088
  • published2 Oct 2026
  • disclosed9 Sept 2026

Introduced: 9 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-87819  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard awx to version 24.6.1-r64 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream awx package and not the awx package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1