{"answers":{"affected":"3 open source packages ship an affected version, including pygments and Pygments. It affects 7 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-20270 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade pygments to 2.7.4 or later.","what":"CVE-2021-20270 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 23 Mar 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-20270 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-20270 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 23 Mar 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-20270 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- pygments (PyPI): affected from 1.5; fixed in 2.7.4\n- pygments (PyPI): affected from 1.5; fixed in 2.7.4\n- Pygments (PyPI): affected from 1.5; fixed in 2.7.4\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-20270/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-20270/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-20270","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-20270/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-20270","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2021-20270","AZL-35137","AZL-6811","DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20270","DLA-2590-1","DSA-4870-1","GHSA-9w8r-397f-prfh","MINI-w3x6-8mx9-9jhh","PYSEC-2021-140","SUSE-SU-2021:1500-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3473-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-20270","USN-4885-1","openSUSE-SU-2021:1402-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:13208-1","openSUSE-SU-2026:11568-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Python syntax highlighting library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An infinite loop in Pygments allows attackers to cause denial of service via crafted Standard ML source files during 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