CVE-2026-87819: GitPython before 3.1.60 Denial of Service via ReDoS
gitpython-developers · GitPython
Fixed in 3.1.60 · Affected: gitpython-developers before 3.1.60 · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 44% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- gitpython-developers · GitPythonbefore 3.1.60
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- gitpython-developers
- Published
- September 2026
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