Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting oracle-free-21-extras package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.91% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-ORACLEFREE21EXTRAS-17433695
  • published24 Jun 2026
  • disclosed17 Mar 2021

Introduced: 17 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-27291  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Minimos:latest oracle-free-21-extras.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream oracle-free-21-extras package and not the oracle-free-21-extras package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1