PT-2021-6509

CVE-2021-32839

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Published

2021-09-10

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Updated

2026-10-31

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CVSS 4.0
8.7
High
MetricsAV: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 sqlparse versions 0.4.0 through 0.4.1
Description The issue is related to a regular Expression Denial of Service in the sqlparse module for Python. The regular expression may cause exponential backtracking on strings containing many repetitions of r in SQL comments. This affects the formatting feature that removes comments from SQL statements.
Recommendations For sqlparse versions 0.4.0 and 0.4.1, as a workaround, do not use the sqlformat.format function with keyword strip comments=True or the --strip-comments command line flag when using the sqlformat command line tool. For sqlparse versions 0.4.0 and 0.4.1, update to sqlparse 0.4.2 to fix the issue.
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Related identifiers
GHSA-P5W8-WQHJ-9HHF
ALT-PU-2021-3031
ALT-PU-2023-6568
ALT-PU-2024-8950
CLEANSTART-2025-LB54099
DLA-4000-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2021:3857-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2021_3857-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11581-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13938-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11221-1
PYSEC-2021-333
RHSA-2022:5498
RLSA-2022:5498
SUSE-SU-2021:3857-1
SUSE-SU-2021_3857-1
USN-5085-1
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