GHSA-fj7x-q9j7-g6q6MediumCVSS 5.3

Black vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Published
March 19, 2024
Last Modified
July 3, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Versions of the package black before 24.3.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the lines_with_leading_tabs_expanded function in the strings.py file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious input that causes a denial of service.

Exploiting this vulnerability is possible when running Black on untrusted input, or if you habitually put thousands of leading tab characters in your docstrings.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/black:>= 0, < 24.3.0

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