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GitPython before 3.2.0 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the reactorepoch pattern used by parseactoranddate…

CVE-2026-110856

GitPython before 3.2.0 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the reactorepoch pattern used by parseactoranddate on author, committer, and tagger lines. Attackers can serve repositories with commit or tag objects containing long space-filled lines lacking a valid epoch or timezone, causing quadratic backtracking and CPU exhaustion.

Assessment

CVSS
8.7 (v4.0)
Severity
High
EPSS
0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Known exploited
Not listed in CISA KEV
Exploit availability
Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
Published
14 October 2026
Last updated
20 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-1333
Assigner
disclosure@vulncheck.com

CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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