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ReDoS in fastapi-guard's penetration attempts detector

Type: advisorySources: OSV

FastAPI Guard is a security library for FastAPI that provides middleware to control IPs, log requests, and detect penetration attempts. fastapi-guard's penetration attempts detection uses regex to scan incoming requests. However, some of the regex patterns used in detection are extremely inefficient and can cause polynomial complexity backtracks when handling specially crafted inputs. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.0.1.

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CVEs
CVE-2025-53539
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3 Nov 2026, 18:42 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

ReDoS in fastapi-guard's penetration attempts detector

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Jul 2025, 19:16 UTC

FastAPI Guard is a security library for FastAPI that provides middleware to control IPs, log requests, and detect penetration attempts. fastapi-guard's penetration attempts detection uses regex to scan incoming requests. However, some of the regex patterns used in detection are extremely inefficient and can cause polynomial complexity backtracks when handling specially crafted inputs. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.0.1.

osv:CVE-2025-53539
Complete source record
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