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CVE-2020-8492

Published: 1/30/2020 Last updated: 10/14/2026 Reserved: 1/30/2020

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.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 6.5 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (7)

conf-python-2-7 conf-python-2-7-dev conf-python-3 conf-python-3-7 conf-python-3-dev py termbox

Products affected (0)

No product listed.

References (33)