CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-87819

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.28%

20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

Risk of CPU resource exhaustion and service unavailability for users of GitPython, potentially leading to application disruption.

Recommendation

Update GitPython to version 3.1.60 or later and restrict access to processing commits from untrusted sources.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS