CVE•Published 2026-09-09•Modified 2026-09-09•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-87819
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
GitPython before 3.1.60 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Actor.name_email_regex that processes commit author and committer fields. Attackers can craft a commit object with a malformed author field containing an unterminated angle bracket to cause quadratic backtracking, exhausting CPU resources for over two minutes per commit access.
Timeline
Published 2026-09-09
Modified 2026-09-09
External references
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Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-87819Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-87819Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
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CVE-2026-87819Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-87819GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
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Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-87819 on GitHub.
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