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.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2021-03-17T13:15:00Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2021-03-22T20:28:40Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
}