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.
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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. | |
| Title | Twisted: IMAP wildcardToRegexp() ReDoS | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1333 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-10-06T19:55:36.523Z
Reserved: 2026-10-06T16:49:40.591Z
Link: CVE-2026-106454
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-06T20:17:27.597
Modified: 2026-10-06T20:17:27.597
Link: CVE-2026-106454
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