Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
pylint-dev/astroid
main @ 65f1e61
3
Fixes
0
CVEs
MEDIUM
Peak severity
0.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Denial of Service: 3 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
astroid/nodes: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
0 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Denial of Service: Parsing pathological type comments can trigger unhandled RecursionError or MemoryError exceptions within the underlying parser module, completely halting the AST generation process. Developers should ensure parsing operations on external inputs are wrapped in defensive try-except blocks.
Denial of Service: Generating string or pretty-print representations of AST nodes containing extremely large integers or oversized identifiers raises unhandled ValueError exceptions during formatting, leading to denial of service during code analysis.