Vulnerability · Published Apr 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-40319Giskard has a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in RegexMatching Check

Low 1.0

In plain English

A low-severity regular-expression denial of service in giskard-oss from Giskard-AI. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 4% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 4.0)1.0Low
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 95.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Giskard is an open-source testing framework for AI models. In versions prior to 1.0.2b1, the RegexMatching check passes a user-supplied regular expression pattern directly to Python's re.search() without any timeout or complexity guard. A crafted regex pattern can trigger catastrophic backtracking, causing the process to hang indefinitely. Exploitation requires write access to a check definition and subsequent execution of the test suite. This issue has been fixed in giskard-checks version 1.0.2b1.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
PyPIgiskard-checks1.0.2b1GHSA-rq2q-4r55-9877
PyPIgiskard-checks1.0.2b1PYSEC-2026-2489

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Giskard-AI giskard-oss < 1.0.2b1

Weakness: CWE-1333 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

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