geopy: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in geopy.Point

[ Why it matters ]Priority signals

• Public proof-of-concept exploit exists (CISA SSVC)

[ Description ]Official description

geopy is a geocoding library for Python. Prior to 2.5.0, geopy.Point and Point.from_string() can spend excessive CPU time due to inefficient regular-expression behavior when an application passes a long malformed coordinate string without the 256-character input limit used by the fix. Geocoder reverse methods also reach the vulnerable parsing path when called with string inputs. Repeated attacker-controlled requests can cause a denial of service, while the numeric Point constructor is unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 2.5.0.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

• geopy 2.5.0Fixed version · GitHub Advisories · pip package geopy: upgrade to 2.5.0 or later (affected <= 2.4.1)

[ Packages ]Affected open-source packages

• geopy pipAffected <= 2.4.1 · fixed in 2.5.0 · GHSA-mhvh-fq92-pfmr

[ References ]References

• github.com/geopy/geopy/commit/5d09fa843f90ec80788b61552539c9fd3ae6c528
• github.com/geopy/geopy/issues/608
• github.com/geopy/geopy/pull/610
• github.com/geopy/geopy/releases/tag/2.5.0
• github.com/geopy/geopy/security/advisories/GHSA-mhvh-fq92-pfmr