Resource Exhaustion Affecting python package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.84% (82nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-PYTHON-2838236
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 2 Mar 2020
Introduced: 2 Mar 2020
CVE-2020-8492 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7
python
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python
package and not the python
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1 allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks against a client because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200221-0001/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8492
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7WOKDEXLYW5UQ4S7PA7E37IITOC7C56J/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5NSAX4SC3V64PGZUPH7PRDLSON34Q5A/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APGWEMYZIY5VHLCSZ3HD67PA5Z2UQFGH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UESGYI5XDAHJBATEZN3MHNDUBDH47AS6/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-09
- https://bugs.python.org/issue39503
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18284
- https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/urllib-basic-auth-regex.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdb31a608dd6758c6093fd645aea3fbf022dd25b37109b6aaea5bc0b5@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfec113c733162b39633fd86a2d0f34bf42ac35f711b3ec1835c774da@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00011.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3888
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4433
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4641
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00003.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4333-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4333-2/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00024.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdb31a608dd6758c6093fd645aea3fbf022dd25b37109b6aaea5bc0b5%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfec113c733162b39633fd86a2d0f34bf42ac35f711b3ec1835c774da%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7WOKDEXLYW5UQ4S7PA7E37IITOC7C56J/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5NSAX4SC3V64PGZUPH7PRDLSON34Q5A/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APGWEMYZIY5VHLCSZ3HD67PA5Z2UQFGH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UESGYI5XDAHJBATEZN3MHNDUBDH47AS6/