CVE-2021-20270

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20270
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-20270.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-20270
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2021-03-23T17:15:13.827Z
Modified
2025-11-14T11:04:54.487307Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An infinite loop in SMLLexer in Pygments versions 1.5 to 2.7.3 may lead to denial of service when performing syntax highlighting of a Standard ML (SML) source file, as demonstrated by input that only contains the "exception" keyword.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pygments/pygments

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pygments/pygments
Events

Affected versions

1.*

1.5
1.6
1.6rc1

2.*

2.0
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.0rc1
2.1
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.2.0
2.3.0
2.3.1
2.4.0
2.4.1
2.4.2
2.5.0
2.5.1
2.5.2
2.6.0
2.6.1
2.7.0
2.7.1
2.7.2
2.7.3