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

Problem descriptionProtego 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 wit...

PYSEC-2026-3906 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

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...

Denial-of-Service (DoS)

Protego is vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service DoS. The vulnerability is due to excessive backtracking caused by translating multiple asterisks in Allow or Disallow directives into lazy regular-expression wildcards, which allows an attacker to provide a crafted robots.txt file and cause...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: 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...

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: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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...