Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FMUGWEAUYGGHTPPXT6YBD53WYXQGVV73/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6SCV7ZNAHS3E6PBFLJGENCDRDRWRZZ6W/ ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-36 ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg ↗
- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/2d4a3fee6de2fa45eb82169361918f759269b4ec ↗