Bug 2544826 (CVE-2026-77387)

Summary: CVE-2026-77387 geopy: geopy: Denial of Service via inefficient regular expression coordinate parsing
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A flaw was found in geopy. An attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by supplying excessively long or malformed coordinate strings to coordinate parsing functions such as Point.from_string() or reverse geocoding methods. Due to inefficient regular expression evaluation on unvalidated input, processing these requests consumes excessive CPU resources, causing the application to hang or become unresponsive.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-01 23:06:35 UTC 
geopy is a geocoding library for Python. Prior to 2.5.0, geopy.Point and Point.from_string() can spend excessive CPU time due to inefficient regular-expression behavior when an application passes a long malformed coordinate string without the 256-character input limit used by the fix. Geocoder reverse methods also reach the vulnerable parsing path when called with string inputs. Repeated attacker-controlled requests can cause a denial of service, while the numeric Point constructor is unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 2.5.0.