CVE-2026-106454

Twisted: IMAP wildcardToRegexp() ReDoS

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Oct 6, 2026
Updated
Oct 7, 2026
Reserved
Oct 6, 2026

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Description

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. In 25.5.0 and earlier, wildcardToRegexp() in twisted/mail/imap4.py translates the IMAP asterisk and percent wildcards but passes all other characters from an authenticated client's LIST or LSUB pattern directly to re.compile(), allowing nested or otherwise expensive regular expression constructs to cause catastrophic backtracking when matched against mailbox names. Because Twisted uses a cooperative single-threaded reactor, the blocking match suspends all server input and output for the duration of the match. No fixed release is available as of this review.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Affected Products

ProductVersions
twistedtwisted
  • <= 25.5.0Affected

References

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