A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) vulnerability was discovered in Mpmath v1.0.0 through v1.2.1 when the mpmathify function is called.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) vulnerability was discovered in Mpmath v1.0.0 through
    v1.2.1 when the mpmathify function is called. (CVE-2021-29063)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7160-1 advisory.

    It was discovered Mpmath incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause Mpmath to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
423402	SCA: security update for mpmath (GHSA-f865-m6cq-j9vx)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
423402	SCA: security update for mpmath (GHSA-f865-m6cq-j9vx)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
213031	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Mpmath vulnerability (USN-7160-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high

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