#VU51776 Resource management error in pygments - CVE-2021-27291 

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#VU51776 Resource management error in pygments - CVE-2021-27291

Published: March 30, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU51776
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-27291
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
pygments
Software vendor:
pygments

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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