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GSD-2022-40023

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19

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Sqlalchemy mako before 1.2.2 is vulnerable to Regular expression Denial of Service when using the Lexer class to parse. This also affects babelplugin and linguaplugin.

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CVE-2022-40023

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CVE-2022-40023

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CVE-2022-40023 (GCVE-0-2022-40023)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-12-03 06:05

Summary

Sqlalchemy mako before 1.2.2 is vulnerable to Regular expression Denial of Service when using the Lexer class to parse. This also affects babelplugin and linguaplugin.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/sqlalchemy/mako/issues/366
https://github.com/sqlalchemy/mako/commit/9257602…
https://github.com/sqlalchemy/mako/blob/c2f392e0b…
https://pyup.io/vulnerabilities/CVE-2022-40023/50870/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022…	mailing-list
https://pyup.io/posts/pyup-discovers-redos-vulner…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

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