CVE-2022-40896 describes a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting Pygments versions up to 2.15.0, specifically within the SmithyLexer component. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) can lead to a denial of service (availability impact) if a user is tricked into processing a specially crafted input, though it requires local access and user interaction. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.15.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pygments:pygments:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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