DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32837

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32837

    Published: 17 Jan 2023Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-32837

    Summary:

    Details: mechanize, a library for automatically interacting with HTTP web servers, contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) prior to version 0.4.6. If a web server responds in a malicious way, then mechanize could crash. Version 0.4.6 has a patch for the issue.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-32837

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-mechanize

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/python-mechanize?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:0.4.7-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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