PT-2026-88957 · Gitpython Developers+2 · Gitpython

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CVE-2026-87819

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Published

2026-08-26

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Updated

2026-09-09

CVSS v4.0

8.7

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

BDU:2026-14472
CVE-2026-87819
GHSA-G5VV-9GXW-82HX

Affected Products

Gitpython