CVE-2021-27291

Advisory

Pygments 2.7.4 includes a fix for CVE-2021-27291: 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.

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Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27291
• https://gist.github.com/b-c-ds/b1a2cc0c68a35c57188575eb496de5ce
• https://github.com/pygments/pygments/commit/2e7e8c4a7b318f4032493773732754e418279a14
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00024.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4878
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WSLD67LFGXOX2K5YNESSWAS4AGZIJTUQ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GSJRFHALQ7E3UV4FFMFU2YQ6LUDHAI55/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.html