CVE-2026-87819
High · 7.5CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.5%
Published
Sep 9, 2026
CISA due date
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The record
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.
Affected packages
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