CVE-2021-3733

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/apythonFixed in python v3.6.14, python v3.7.11, python v3.8.10, python v3.9.5.affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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