CVE-2026-59220: Python Redos Overlapping Quantifiers

Overlapping regex quantifiers can lead to catastrophic backtracking (ReDoS) when processing malicious input without a closing '>'.

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Description

Overlapping regex quantifiers can lead to catastrophic backtracking (ReDoS) when processing malicious input without a closing '>'.