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...

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-2006-4895

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