Intel/AIKIDO-2024-10039
holidays
AIKIDO-2024-10039
holidays is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Pre-CVE Published Apr 22, 2024
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
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Medium Risk
This Affects:
holidays0.1 - 0.44
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TL;DR
The affected versions use a regular expression with inefficient, potentially polynomial worst-case computational complexity, leading to excessive CPU consumption in scripts/generate_release_notes.py.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.
Background info
holidays is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in versions 0.1 - 0.44.
How to fix this
Upgrade the holidays library to the patch version.
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