CVE-2021-27291 Affecting pygments package, versions <2.7.1+dfsg-2ubuntu1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.56% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2204-PYGMENTS-2783996
  • published18 Mar 2021
  • disclosed17 Mar 2021

Introduced: 17 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-27291  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:22.04 pygments to version 2.7.1+dfsg-2ubuntu1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pygments package and not the pygments package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:22.04 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 Scores

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