Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting py3-captum package, versions <0.9.0-r1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.53% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-PY3CAPTUM-17896671
  • published9 Jul 2026
  • disclosed2 Jun 2022

Introduced: 2 Jun 2022

CVE-2021-43307  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard py3-captum to version 0.9.0-r1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream py3-captum package and not the py3-captum package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the semver-regex npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the test() method

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1