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CVE-2020-23478
Leo Editor v6.2.1 was discovered to contain a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the component…
High7.5EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Leo Editor v6.2.1 was discovered to contain a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the component plugins/importers/dart.py.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (2)
- https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/1597 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-x38q-xg2h-rxgx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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