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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EUVD 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 Github GHSA GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser when passed URL containing many @ characters
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5812-1 urllib3 vulnerability
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cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-06-29T11:15:07.847

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:08:58.030

Link: CVE-2021-33503

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-33503 - Bugzilla

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