Upstream information

CVE-2024-21503 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  SUSE
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1221530 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • python310-black >= 24.3.0-1.1
  • python311-black >= 24.3.0-1.1
  • python312-black >= 24.3.0-1.1
  • python39-black >= 24.3.0-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA python310-black-24.3.0-1.1

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Mar 18 07:45:08 2024
CVE page last modified: Wed Apr 24 11:50:10 2024