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CVE-2020-8492

Updated on 30 Jan 2020

Severity

6.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
6.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected product:
Alpine Linux 3.22 , CentOS 6 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , Debian 10 , Debian 11 , Debian 12 , Debian 13 , EL 10 , EL 6 , EL 7 , EL 8 , EL 9 , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 , Ubuntu 22.04 , Ubuntu 24.04
Affected packages:
python2.7 @ 2.7.17-1 (+39 more)
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.

Fixes