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Asymmetric denial of service - ReDoS In python-git

Description

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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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