Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

pylint-dev/pylint

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Fixes

CVEs

LOW

Peak severity

Highlights

ReDoS: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

pylint/pyreverse/utils.py: 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.

ReDoS: Regular expressions with nested or overlapping quantifiers can lead to catastrophic backtracking when evaluated against specially crafted source code or configuration strings, causing the linter to hang indefinitely.