CVE-2026-40319
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Description
Giskard is an open-source testing framework for AI models. In versions prior to 1.0.2b1, the RegexMatching check passes a user-supplied regular expression pattern directly to Python's re.search() without any timeout or complexity guard. A crafted regex pattern can trigger catastrophic backtracking, causing the process to hang indefinitely. Exploitation requires write access to a check definition and subsequent execution of the test suite. This issue has been fixed in giskard-checks version 1.0.2b1.
Severity
LOW
CVSS score
1.0
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-04-17 18:16:32.063000
Last modified
2026-10-25 23:10:00.167000
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