All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer, putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. References: https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-CONFIGOBJ-3252494 https://github.com/DiffSK/configobj/issues/232
Created python-configobj tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2224088] Created python3-configobj tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-7 [bug 2224089]