CVE-2020-8492
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-01-30 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 10:03
Severity ?
Summary
Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1 allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks against a client because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00003.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.python.org/issue39503Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18284Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdb31a608dd6758c6093fd645aea3fbf022dd25b37109b6aaea5bc0b5%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfec113c733162b39633fd86a2d0f34bf42ac35f711b3ec1835c774da%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00024.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7WOKDEXLYW5UQ4S7PA7E37IITOC7C56J/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5NSAX4SC3V64PGZUPH7PRDLSON34Q5A/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APGWEMYZIY5VHLCSZ3HD67PA5Z2UQFGH/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UESGYI5XDAHJBATEZN3MHNDUBDH47AS6/
cve@mitre.orghttps://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/urllib-basic-auth-regex.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-09Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200221-0001/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4333-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4333-2/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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