HIGH 8.7 NVD
CVE-2026-87819
GitPython before 3.1.60 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Actor.name_email_regex that processes commit author and committer field
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.
References
- https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/security/advisories/GHSA-g5vv-9gxw-82hx
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gitpython-before-3.1.60-denial-of-service-via-redos
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.7 was published on 2026-09-09 via NVD.
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