BIT-python-2021-3733

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    BIT-python-2021-3733

    Published: 6 Mar 2024Last Modified: 8 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://bugs.python.org/issue43075, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1995234, https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7215d1ae25525c92b026166f9d5cac85fb, https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24391, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00024.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00039.html, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220407-0001/, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3733, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3733, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python

    Purl: pkg:bitnami/python

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.6.14

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
    None
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