GitPython before 3.1.60 Denial of Service via ReDoS
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.
CVE-2026-87819
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-87819
GitPython
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "gitpython-developers",
"product": "GitPython",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"lessThan": "3.1.60",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "3.1.60",
"versionType": "semver"
}
],
"packageURL": "pkg:pypi/gitpython",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-87819
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #12954 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date