CVE-2026-55520

A flaw was found in Protego, a pure-Python robots.txt parser. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a crafted robots.txt file containing numerous asterisks in Allow or Disallow directives. This causes exponential backtracking during URL wildcard matching, leading to a...

CVE-2026-55520

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2026-08-28 20:35:15+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://github.com/scrapy/protego/security/advisories/GHSA-wjmf-p669-5m5p...

CVE-2026-55520

Protego is a pure-Python robots.txt parser with support for modern conventions. Prior to 0.6.2, protego.urlpattern.URLPattern.preparepatternforregex translates every asterisk in an Allow or Disallow directive into a lazy regular-expression wildcard, so a directive containing many asterisks create...

GHSA-WJMF-P669-5M5P Protego has exponential backtracking ReDoS in robots.txt URL wildcard matching

Problem description Protego constructs regular expressions to match URLs against robots.txt Allow: and Disallow: directives, see protego.urlpattern.URLPattern.preparepatternforregex. Every in the directive value is translated into a lazy .? regex piece, thus a specially crafted directive value wi...

Protego has exponential backtracking ReDoS in robots.txt URL wildcard matching

Problem description Protego constructs regular expressions to match URLs against robots.txt Allow: and Disallow: directives, see protego.urlpattern.URLPattern.preparepatternforregex. Every in the directive value is translated into a lazy .? regex piece, thus a specially crafted directive value wi...

CVE-2026-55520 Protego: Exponential backtracking ReDoS in robots.txt URL wildcard matching

Protego is a pure-Python robots.txt parser with support for modern conventions. Prior to 0.6.2, protego.urlpattern.URLPattern.preparepatternforregex translates every asterisk in an Allow or Disallow directive into a lazy regular-expression wildcard, so a directive containing many asterisks create...

EUVD-2026-67865

Protego is a pure-Python robots.txt parser with support for modern conventions. Prior to 0.6.2, protego.urlpattern.URLPattern.preparepatternforregex translates every asterisk in an Allow or Disallow directive into a lazy regular-expression wildcard, so a directive containing many asterisks create...

CVE-2026-55520

Protego is a pure-Python robots.txt parser. Prior to 0.6.2 , the _URLPattern._prepare_pattern_for_regex method in src/protego/_urlpattern.py translates every asterisk in an Allow or Disallow directive into a lazy regex wildcard. A directive containing many asterisks triggers exponential backtrack...

CVE-2026-55520 Protego: Exponential backtracking ReDoS in robots.txt URL wildcard matching

Protego is a pure-Python robots.txt parser with support for modern conventions. Prior to 0.6.2, protego.urlpattern.URLPattern.preparepatternforregex translates every asterisk in an Allow or Disallow directive into a lazy regular-expression wildcard, so a directive containing many asterisks create...

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11202-1 python313-Protego-0.6.2-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the python313-Protego-0.6.2-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed...

CVE-2020-12717

The COVIDSafe Australia app 1.0 and 1.1 for iOS allows a remote attacker to crash the app, and consequently interfere with COVID-19 contact tracing, via a Bluetooth advertisement containing manufacturer data that is too short. This occurs because of an erroneous OpenTrace manuData.subdata call. T...

Malicious code in dewiz-xyz-protego (npm)

The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity. --- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 12df6549a4cbc6f4567449f311e376161847587f484c17de41234a4475bb0a3e Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered...

protego-finanz.de Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-2225322

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

CVE-2020-12717

The COVIDSafe Australia app 1.0 and 1.1 for iOS allows a remote attacker to crash the app, and consequently interfere with COVID-19 contact tracing, via a Bluetooth advertisement containing manufacturer data that is too short. This occurs because of an erroneous OpenTrace manuData.subdata call. T...

CVE-2020-12717

The COVIDSafe Australia app 1.0 and 1.1 for iOS allows a remote attacker to crash the app, and consequently interfere with COVID-19 contact tracing, via a Bluetooth advertisement containing manufacturer data that is too short. This occurs because of an erroneous OpenTrace manuData.subdata call. T...

Code injection

The COVIDSafe Australia app 1.0 and 1.1 for iOS allows a remote attacker to crash the app, and consequently interfere with COVID-19 contact tracing, via a Bluetooth advertisement containing manufacturer data that is too short. This occurs because of an erroneous OpenTrace manuData.subdata call. T...

CVE-2020-12717

The COVIDSafe Australia app 1.0 and 1.1 for iOS allows a remote attacker to crash the app, and consequently interfere with COVID-19 contact tracing, via a Bluetooth advertisement containing manufacturer data that is too short. This occurs because of an erroneous OpenTrace manuData.subdata call. T...

Wikileaks Unveils Project Protego: CIA's Secret Missile Control System

Every week since March Wikileaks has been leaking secrets from the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA, which mainly focus on surveillance techniques and hacking tools employed by its agents. However this time, the whistleblower organisation has released something different from its...

Cisco/Protego CS-MARS < 4.2.1 (JBoss) Remote Code Execution Exploit

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/perl Cisco/Protego CS-MARS 4.2.1 remote command execution, system compromise via insecure JBoss installation. Fully functional POC code by Jon Hart [email protected] Addressed in CSCse47646 CS-MARS is an event correlation product orginally written by...

Cisco MARS Remote Command Execution In Jboss

!/usr/bin/perl Cisco/Protego CS-MARS Addressed in CSCse47646 CS-MARS is an event correlation product orginally written by Protego, which is now owned by Cisco. It is built on top of JBoss. Unfortunately, little or no effort was put in to securing the JBoss installation as per the JBoss community'...