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

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

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8vjh-pxfw-4fqm

## 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 (Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12391?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## Is CVE-2024-12391 being exploited?

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

## Other vulnerabilities in binary-husky/gpt_academic

- [CVE-2026-0763](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-0763/): GPT Academic run_in_subprocess_wrapper_func Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-0764](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-0764/): GPT Academic upload Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-31224](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31224/): GPT Academic: Pickle deserializing cookies may pose RCE risk (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-10950](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10950/): Code Injection in binary-husky/gpt_academic (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-10954](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10954/): Prompt Injection Leading to RCE in binary-husky/gpt_academic Plugin `manim` (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12391 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: binary-husky/gpt_academic. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12391/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12391/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12391
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12391
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12391

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