PT-2020-17233
CVE-2020-29651
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Published
2020-09-03
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Updated
2026-10-04
Description by
CVSS 4.0
8.7
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
py versions through 1.9.0
Description
A denial of service via regular expression in the py.path.svnwc component could be used by attackers to cause a compute-time denial of service attack by supplying malicious input to the blame functionality.
Recommendations
For versions through 1.9.0, update to a version later than 1.9.0 to resolve the issue.
As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the input to the blame functionality to minimize the risk of exploitation.
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