CVE-2026-87819
HIGHGitPython before 3.1.60 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Actor.nameemailregex 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
- <3.1.60
- Fixed in
- not stated
- Weakness
- CWE-1333
- Published
- 2026-09-09
- Source
- NVD