An issue was discovered in urllib3 before 1.26.5. When provided with a URL containing many @ characters in the authority component, the authority regular expression exhibits catastrophic backtracking, causing a denial of service if a URL were passed as a parameter or redirected to via an HTTP redirect.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2021-0456 | An issue was discovered in urllib3 before 1.26.5. When provided with a URL containing many @ characters in the authority component, the authority regular expression exhibits catastrophic backtracking, causing a denial of service if a URL were passed as a parameter or redirected to via an HTTP redirect. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg | Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser when passed URL containing many @ characters |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-5812-1 | urllib3 vulnerability |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T23:50:42.973Z
Reserved: 2021-05-21T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-33503
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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-06-29T11:15:07.847
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:08:58.030
Link: CVE-2021-33503
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