CVE-2024-12391 Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in binary-husky/gpt_academic

Medium 6.5 Published 20 Mar 2025 Updated 15 Oct 2025

An attacker can cause a Denial of Service by providing malicious regular expressions that hang the server in the gpt_academic application.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2024-12391?

CVE-2024-12391 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in binary-husky/gpt_academic, published on 20 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in binary-husky/gpt_academic, as of commit 310122f, allows for a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. The function '解析项目源码（手动指定和筛选源码文件类型）' permits the execution of user-provided regular expressions. Certain regular expressions can cause the Python RE engine to take exponential time to execute, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. An attacker who controls both the regular expression and the search string can exploit this vulnerability to hang the server for an arbitrary amount of time.

Weakness: CWE-1333

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12391?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Binary-Husky Gpt Academic.

How do I fix CVE-2024-12391?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12391 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-12391 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-12391 exists.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-8vjh-pxfw-4fqm.