CVE-2021-3733 (GCVE-0-2021-3733)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:45
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Summary
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.
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CWE
  • CWE-400 - - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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Vendor Product Version
n/a python Affected: Fixed in python v3.6.14, python v3.7.11, python v3.8.10, python v3.9.5.
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