Description
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.
Published: 2021-02-08
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 1.9% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-0098 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-93xj-8mrv-444m Regular Expression Denial of Service (REDoS) in httplib2
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.02198}

epss

{'score': 0.04541}


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Httplib2 Project Httplib2
Redhat Openstack
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:09:14.827Z

Reserved: 2020-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-21240

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-02-08T20:15:12.197

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:47:50.650

Link: CVE-2021-21240

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-01-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-21240 - Bugzilla

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