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CVE-2021-32839: StripComments filter contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to ReDOS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

September 10, 2021 (updated November 4, 2025)

The formatter function that strips comments from a SQL contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service). The regular expression may cause exponential backtracking on strings containing many repetitions of ‘\r\n’ in SQL comments.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-p5w8-wqhj-9hhf
  • github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse
  • github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse/commit/8238a9e450ed1524e40cb3a8b0b3c00606903aeb
  • github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse/security/advisories/GHSA-p5w8-wqhj-9hhf
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/sqlparse/PYSEC-2021-333.yaml
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00022.html
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32839
  • securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-107-andialbrecht-sqlparse

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 0.4.0 before 0.4.2

Fixed versions

  • 0.4.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.4.2 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source file

pypi/sqlparse/CVE-2021-32839.yml

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