01 Record
CVE-2020-5236
Catastrophic backtracking in regex allows Denial of Service in Waitress
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score5.7 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
02 Description
Catastrophic backtracking in regex allows Denial of Service in Waitress
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.36% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-02-04 03:05Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 08:22Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-01-02
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.7)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- eb5187b90b779e9ea58b676bb5a21f8067334f17844bd6d83f710ef1d3a2a779
05 Affected products
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