High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-29651
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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