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CVE-2024-21503

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Last updated

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21503

Severity

5.3

Medium

CVSS V3

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.

References

  • https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-h259-6cff-45xg

Affected packages


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