CVE-2022-40896 (GCVE-0-2022-40896)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-19 00:00 – Updated: 2024-11-27 14:28
VLAI
Summary
A ReDoS issue was discovered in pygments/lexers/smithy.py in pygments through 2.15.0 via SmithyLexer.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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