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TI-2021-10218 Aliases CVE-2021-29510GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh

Use of "infinity" as an input to datetime and date fields causes infinite loop in pydantic

Priority LOW 35CWE-835Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-835.

Summary

Pydantic is a data validation and settings management using Python type hinting. In affected versions passing either `'infinity'`, `'inf'` or `float('inf')` (or their negatives) to `datetime` or `date` fields causes validation to run forever with 100% CPU usage (on one CPU). Pydantic has been patched with fixes available in the following versions: v1.8.2, v1.7.4, v1.6.2. All these versions are available on pypi(https://pypi.org/project/pydantic/#history), and will be available on conda-forge(https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pydantic) soon. See the changelog(https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/) for details. If you absolutely can't upgrade, you can work around this risk using a validator(https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/usage/validators/) to catch these values. This is not an ideal solution (in particular you'll need a slightly different function for datetimes), instead of a hack like this you should upgrade pydantic. If you are not using v1.8.x, v1.7.x or v1.6.x and are unable to upgrade to a fixed version of pydantic, please create an issue at https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/issues requesting a back-port, and we will endeavour to release a patch for earlier versions of pydantic.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00975 62nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed pydantic (samuelcolvin): 1.8.2, 1.7.4, 1.6.2pydantic (PyPI): 1.6.2, 1.8.2, 1.7.4

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
samuelcolvinpydantic1.8.0 to before 1.8.2; 1.7.0 to before 1.7.4; before 1.6.21.8.2, 1.7.4, 1.6.2Patch availableCNA
—pydantic (PyPI)before 1.6.21.6.2Patch availableGHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh
—pydantic (PyPI)1.8 to before 1.8.21.8.2Patch availableGHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh
—pydantic (PyPI)1.7 to before 1.7.41.7.4Patch availableGHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh
  • pydantic Vendorsamuelcolvin Affected 1.8.0 to before 1.8.2; 1.7.0 to before 1.7.4; before 1.6.2 Fixed in 1.8.2, 1.7.4, 1.6.2 Patch available CNA
  • pydantic (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 1.6.2 Fixed in 1.6.2 Patch available GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh
  • pydantic (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 1.8 to before 1.8.2 Fixed in 1.8.2 Patch available GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh
  • pydantic (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 1.7 to before 1.7.4 Fixed in 1.7.4 Patch available GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh

CPE configurations NVD · 3

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:pydantic:pydantic:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.6.2; 1.7 to before 1.7.4; 1.8 to before 1.8.2Vulnerablepydantic
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*33VulnerableFedoraproject
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*34VulnerableFedoraproject
  • cpe:2.3:a:pydantic:pydantic:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.6.2; 1.7 to before 1.7.4; 1.8 to before 1.8.2 Vulnerable ·pydantic
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 33 Vulnerable ·Fedoraproject
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 34 Vulnerable ·Fedoraproject

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA pydantic (samuelcolvin) Fixed in 1.8.2, 1.7.4, 1.6.2
  • Fix · GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh pydantic (PyPI) Fixed in 1.6.2 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh pydantic (PyPI) Fixed in 1.8.2 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh pydantic (PyPI) Fixed in 1.7.4 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-29510
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5jqp-qgf6-3pvh

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