CVE-2020-29651 (GCVE-0-2020-29651)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-09 06:58 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:44
VLAI
Summary
A denial of service via regular expression in the py.path.svnwc component of py (aka python-py) through 1.9.0 could be used by attackers to cause a compute-time denial of service attack by supplying malicious input to the blame functionality.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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