CVE-2026-106454
MEDIUM
4,3
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: low
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: low
Description
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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.
1333
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
DraftCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu)
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/2f8a3c29246f4eb324690e06a9767a11dc4ae…
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/12788
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-8pqf-f4m5-798g