vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-cdc685b5-1724-49a1-ad57-2eaab68e9cc0 (CVE-2021-20270): py-pygments -- multiple DoS vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 31, 2023
Added
Sep 1, 2023
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Red Hat reports: An infinite loop in SMLLexer in Pygments versions 1.5 to 2.7.3 may lead to denial of service when performing syntax highlighting of a Standard ML (SML) source file, as demonstrated by input that only contains the "exception" keyword. Ben Caller reports: In pygments 1.1+, fixed in 2.7.4, the lexers used to parse programming languages rely heavily on regular expressions. Some of the regular expressions have exponential or cubic worst-case complexity and are vulnerable to ReDoS. By crafting malicious input, an attacker can cause a denial of service.

Solutions

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