Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting sqlparse package, versions <0.4.4-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.98% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-SQLPARSE-11768565
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed18 Apr 2023

Introduced: 18 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-30608  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 sqlparse to version 0.4.4-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sqlparse package and not the sqlparse package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

sqlparse is a non-validating SQL parser module for Python. In affected versions the SQL parser contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service). This issue was introduced by commit e75e358. The vulnerability may lead to Denial of Service (DoS). This issues has been fixed in sqlparse 0.4.4 by commit c457abd5f. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1