# CVE-2026-77387: geopy: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in geopy.Point

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-4218, GHSA-MHVH-FQ92-PFMR
- Severity: CVSS 4.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.5.0
- Published: 2026-10-01 · Updated: 2026-10-01

## Affected

- geopy: fixed in 2.5.0
- geopy (PyPI): fixed in 2.5.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on geopy, upgrade to a fixed version (2.5.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

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

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