PYSEC-2024-48

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2024-21503
Aliases
GHSA-fj7x-q9j7-g6q6

Description

Versions of the package black before 24.3.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the lines_with_leading_tabs_expanded function in the strings.py file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious input that causes a denial of service. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible when running Black on untrusted input, or if you habitually put thousands of leading tab characters in your docstrings.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · blackintroduced 0, fixed f00093672628d212b8965a8993cee8bedf5fe9b8 ; introduced 0, fixed 24.3.0

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database