vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-27291
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | 2021-03-17 | 2025-01-20 | 2025-02-04 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
2021-03-17
Added
2025-01-20
Modified
2025-02-04
Description
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.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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