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Low · 3.3 CVE-2021-29510 EUVD-2021-0206GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvhPYSEC-2021-47

Use of "infinity" as an input to datetime and date fields causes infinite loop in pydantic

Published May 13, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Pydantic is a data validation and settings management using Python type hinting. In affected versions passing either `'infinity'`, `'inf'` or `float('inf')` (or their negatives) to `datetime` or `date` fields causes validation to run forever with 100% CPU usage (on one CPU). Pydantic has been patched with fixes available in the following versions: v1.8.2, v1.7.4, v1.6.2. All these versions are available on pypi(https://pypi.org/project/pydantic/#history), and will be available on conda-forge(https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pydantic) soon. See the changelog(https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/) for details. If you absolutely can't upgrade, you can work around this risk using a validator(https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/usage/validators/) to catch these values. This is not an ideal solution (in particular you'll need a slightly different function for datetimes), instead of a hack like this you should upgrade pydantic. If you are not using v1.8.x, v1.7.x or v1.6.x and are unable to upgrade to a fixed version of pydantic, please create an issue at https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/issues requesting a back-port, and we will endeavour to release a patch for earlier versions of pydantic.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
samuelcolvin pydantic >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.2, >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.4, < 1.6.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 pydantic 1.7.4-1 —
Debian 13 pydantic 1.7.4-1 —
Debian 12 pydantic 1.7.4-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS pydantic 1.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-6553-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-pydantic 2.13.4-2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11424-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI pydantic < 1.6.2 1.6.2 GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh
PyPI pydantic >= 1.8, < 1.8.2 1.8.2 GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh
PyPI pydantic >= 1.7, < 1.7.4 1.7.4 GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh
PyPI pydantic < 1.6.2 · >= 1.7, < 1.7.4 · >= 1.8, < 1.8.2 1.6.2, 1.7.4, 1.8.2 PYSEC-2021-47

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