CVSS 3.1
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LCVE-2024-21503
Medium (5.3). EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in black 24.3.0.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 62% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-1333, CWE-75
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-fj7x-q9j7-g6q6 | PyPI | black | <24.3.0 | 24.3.0 |
| PYSEC-2024-48 | PyPI | black | <24.3.0 | 24.3.0 |
References
- https://github.com/psf/black/commit/f00093672628d212b8965a8993cee8bedf5fe9b8
- https://github.com/psf/black/releases/tag/24.3.0
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-BLACK-6256273
- https://github.com/psf/black/commit/f00093672628d212b8965a8993cee8bedf5fe9b8
- https://github.com/psf/black/releases/tag/24.3.0