CVE-2023-30608 (GCVE-0-2023-30608)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-18 21:32 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:48
VLAI
Title
Parser contains an inefficient regular expression in sqlparse
Summary
sqlparse is a non-validating SQL parser module for Python. In affected versions the SQL parser contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service). This issue was introduced by commit `e75e358`. The vulnerability may lead to Denial of Service (DoS). This issues has been fixed in sqlparse 0.4.4 by commit `c457abd5f`. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
andialbrecht sqlparse Affected: >= 0.1.15, < 0.4.4
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