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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:01:08.289Z

Reserved: 2021-08-23T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-3733

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-03-10T17:42:59.623

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:22:16.753

Link: CVE-2021-3733

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3733 - Bugzilla

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