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Echo: python-git: security update to 3.1.60

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 471106

Description

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

 - GitPython before 3.1.60 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in
 Actor.name_email_regex that processes commit author and committer fields. Attackers can craft a commit
 object with a malformed author field containing an unterminated angle bracket to cause quadratic
 backtracking, exhausting CPU resources for over two minutes per commit access. (CVE-2026-87819)

Solution

Update the python-git library and its related packages to version 3.1.60 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2026-87819

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 471106

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Published: 10/3/2026

Updated: 10/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-87819

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-87819