CVE-2022-40896

A denial-of-service vulnerability related to regular expressions was discovered in Pygments, specifically in the file pygments/lexers/smithy.py. An attacker could exploit this flaw by sending a carefully crafted request, leading to a denial-of-service situation.

https://pyup.io/posts/pyup-discovers-redos-vulnerabilities-in-top-python-packages-part-2/ https://data.safetycli.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-2022-40896/58910/?utm_source=pyupio&utm_medium=redirect&utm_campaign=pyup_rd&utm_id=0817&utm_content=data

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.