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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-77399 EUVD-2026-84800

icalendar: Denial of service via unbounded VALARM REPEAT expansion

Published Sep 22, 2026 · Updated Sep 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

icalendar is an RFC 5545 compatible parser and generator of iCalendar files for Python. From 6.1.0 until 7.2.2, vInt.from_ical accepts an attacker-controlled VALARM REPEAT value and applications that request alarm times can eagerly expand it without an application-level limit. Alarms.times and Alarms.active reach the unbounded expansion in versions starting with 6.1.0, while Alarm.triggers adds a second affected path starting with 7.0.0. Parsing alone does not trigger the issue, but accessing these properties can consume excessive CPU time and heap memory and terminate or stall a service. This issue is fixed in version 7.2.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
collective icalendar >= 6.1.0, < 7.2.2 —

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 python-icalendar 7.3.0-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 python-icalendar No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS python-icalendar No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS python-icalendar No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS python-icalendar No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS python-icalendar No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS python-icalendar No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS python-icalendar No fix yet —

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