redos is an open-source CLI tool for Python that analyzes code to find regular expressions vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking (ReDoS). It helps developers and security engineers identify and fix regex security issues in their projects.
redos sits in PulseGate's Code review & quality category. It focuses on detecting and preventing catastrophic backtracking vulnerabilities in regular expressions within Python code. redos is an open-source project aimed at python developers, security engineers. The project is open source (MIT License). It runs on the command line, and it can be self-hosted.
Behind redos is gazzycodes, and it first shipped in 2026. Key capabilities include reDoS detection, regex analysis, and static code analysis.
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