CVE-2026-59966

Tandoor Recipes: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) via User-Controlled Automation Regex Patterns

MEDIUM
5.7
CVSS Score
Published: October 16, 2026 at 07:18 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 08:52 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorRecipes

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Severity
MEDIUM5.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Tandoor Recipes is an application for managing recipes, planning meals, and building shopping lists. Prior to 2.6.10, executes user-controlled Automation regular-expression patterns with Python re.sub() without complexity validation or an execution timeout when an authenticated user stores a catastrophic-backtracking regex and any user in the same Space imports a matching recipe. Request processing uses Automation.param_2, apply_regex_replace_automation, sub, api/recipe-from-source/. The attack works because the shared-Space automation engine evaluates the malicious pattern during recipe import and can occupy a Gunicorn worker until its request timeout. This can exhaust application worker slots and make the service unavailable to users. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.10.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

5.7MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-1333

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