There's a flaw in urllib's AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. An attacker who...
Vulnerability Description
There's a flaw in urllib's AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. An attacker who controls a malicious HTTP server that an HTTP client (such as web browser) connects to, could trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) during an authentication request with a specially crafted payload that is sent by the server to the client. The greatest threat that this flaw poses is to application availability.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://bugs.python.org/issue43075
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1995234
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24391
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3733
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7215d1ae25525c92b026166f9d5cac85fb
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220407-0001/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00024.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00039.html
