CVE-2021-20270 (GCVE-0-2021-20270)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-23 16:40 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:37
VLAI
Summary
An infinite loop in SMLLexer in Pygments versions 1.5 to 2.7.3 may lead to denial of service when performing syntax highlighting of a Standard ML (SML) source file, as demonstrated by input that only contains the "exception" keyword.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a python-pygments Affected: python-pygments 2.7.4
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