CVE-2026-106454

medium

Description

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. In 25.5.0 and earlier, wildcardToRegexp() in twisted/mail/imap4.py translates the IMAP asterisk and percent wildcards but passes all other characters from an authenticated client's LIST or LSUB pattern directly to re.compile(), allowing nested or otherwise expensive regular expression constructs to cause catastrophic backtracking when matched against mailbox names. Because Twisted uses a cooperative single-threaded reactor, the blocking match suspends all server input and output for the duration of the match. No fixed release is available as of this review.

References

https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-8pqf-f4m5-798g

https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/12788

https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/2f8a3c29246f4eb324690e06a9767a11dc4aec9f

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-93873

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0033