cve-2021-21240
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-02-08 19:45
Modified
2024-08-03 18:09
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. In httplib2 before version 0.19.0, a malicious server which responds with long series of "\xa0" characters in the "www-authenticate" header may cause Denial of Service (CPU burn while parsing header) of the httplib2 client accessing said server. This is fixed in version 0.19.0 which contains a new implementation of auth headers parsing using the pyparsing library.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/commit/bd9ee252c8f099608019709e22c0d705e98d26bcPatch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/182Patch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-93xj-8mrv-444mExploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://pypi.org/project/httplib2Product, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/commit/bd9ee252c8f099608019709e22c0d705e98d26bcPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/182Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-93xj-8mrv-444mExploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pypi.org/project/httplib2Product, Third Party Advisory
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