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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-29651

A denial of service via regular expression in the py.path.svnwc component of py (aka python-py) through 1.9.0 could be used by attackers to cause a compute-time denial of service attack by supplying malicious input to the blame functionality.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:25 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-29651

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Dec 2020, 07:15 UTC

A denial of service via regular expression in the py.path.svnwc component of py (aka python-py) through 1.9.0 could be used by attackers to cause a compute-time denial of service attack by supplying malicious input to the blame functionality.

osv:CVE-2020-29651
Complete source record
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        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CHDTINIBJZ67T3W74QTBIY5LPKAXEOGR/",
        "https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/issues/256",
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