# CVE-2026-77399: icalendar: Denial of service via unbounded VALARM REPEAT expansion

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.2.2
- Published: 2026-09-22 · Updated: 2026-09-23

## Affected

- collective icalendar: from 6.1.0, fixed in 7.2.2

## Description

icalendar is an RFC 5545 compatible parser and generator of iCalendar files for Python. From 6.1.0 until 7.2.2, vInt.from_ical accepts an attacker-controlled VALARM REPEAT value and applications that request alarm times can eagerly expand it without an application-level limit. Alarms.times and Alarms.active reach the unbounded expansion in versions starting with 6.1.0, while Alarm.triggers adds a second affected path starting with 7.0.0. Parsing alone does not trigger the issue, but accessing these properties can consume excessive CPU time and heap memory and terminate or stall a service. This issue is fixed in version 7.2.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on collective icalendar, upgrade to a fixed version (7.2.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/collective/icalendar/security/advisories/GHSA-qjcq-q7h7-r74v
- https://github.com/collective/icalendar/pull/1571
- https://github.com/collective/icalendar/commit/157f85137c65565a308bbcf4fdcc7d8ebce01267
- https://github.com/collective/icalendar/commit/cddd37226adbc52cca52a399f61d38a378221219
- https://github.com/collective/icalendar/releases/tag/v7.2.2

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