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CVE-2026-87819

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-09-09 Modified: 2026-09-18

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Gitpython Project Gitpython

Weakness Type

CWE-1333

References