Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting python3.12-gitpython package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PYTHON312GITPYTHON-20475820
  • published4 Oct 2026
  • disclosed9 Sept 2026

Introduced: 9 Sep 2026

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 python3.12-gitpython.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3.12-gitpython package and not the python3.12-gitpython package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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