CVE-2022-40023 (GCVE-0-2022-40023)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-12-03 06:05
VLAI
Summary
Sqlalchemy mako before 1.2.2 is vulnerable to Regular expression Denial of Service when using the Lexer class to parse. This also affects babelplugin and linguaplugin.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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