Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:19504Denial Of Service (DoS)
EPSS
Percentile
79.2%
Python is vulnerable to denial of service(DoS) attacks. This is because the implementation of catastrophic backtracking. A remote authenticated user could trigger a denial of service condition via backtracking in ‘difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK’ method in difflib which may leads to a application crash.
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