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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "id": "MGASA-2026-0450",
  "published": "2026-09-25T05:02:40Z",
  "modified": "2026-09-25T03:55:13Z",
  "summary": "Updated python-gitpython packages fix security vulnerabilities",
  "details": "Denial of Service via catastrophic backtracking (ReDoS) in\nActor.name_email_regex — commit author/committer field parsing\nRepository content can impersonate the git directory, leading to\narbitrary code execution\nResidual of GHSA-hmq2-w58f-27jc: the fix validates the `.gitmodules`\n**name** but the sibling **path** field still reaches `os.makedirs()`\nunguarded, although GitPython already owns the containment guard\n",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-87819"
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2026-0450.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36236"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BDOHJYCCKJJIA7ROKB3WUA4RCPF3K4XD/"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/security/advisories/GHSA-g5vv-9gxw-82hx"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/security/advisories/GHSA-239g-whfq-7xj9"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6CXBNC2IT6FI6BVCJONOLKTNTJK7K4A5/"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/security/advisories/GHSA-59cr-6r3x-644w"
    }
  ],
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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Mageia:10",
        "name": "python-gitpython",
        "purl": "pkg:rpm/mageia/python-gitpython?arch=source&distro=mageia-10"
      },
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  "credits": [
    {
      "name": "Mageia",
      "type": "COORDINATOR",
      "contact": [
        "https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"
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