CVE-2026-110856
Received Received - Intake

GitPython Regex DoS in parse_actor_and_date

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-110856, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-10-14

Last updated on: 2026-10-14

Assigner: VulnCheck

Description

GitPython before 3.2.0 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the _re_actor_epoch pattern used by parse_actor_and_date on author, committer, and tagger lines. Attackers can serve repositories with commit or tag objects containing long space-filled lines lacking a valid epoch or timezone, causing quadratic backtracking and CPU exhaustion.

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Published
2026-10-14
Last Modified
2026-10-14
Generated
2026-10-15
EPSS Evaluated
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gitpython-developers GitPython 0

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CWE-1333 The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

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