ALPINE-CVE-2021-27291

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    ALPINE-CVE-2021-27291

    Published: 17 Mar 2021Last Modified: 27 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-27291

    Summary:

    Details: In pygments 1.1+, fixed in 2.7.4, the lexers used to parse programming languages rely heavily on regular expressions. Some of the regular expressions have exponential or cubic worst-case complexity and are vulnerable to ReDoS. By crafting malicious input, an attacker can cause a denial of service.

    References: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-27291

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: py3-pygments

    Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/py3-pygments?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.5.2-r1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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