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CVE-2020-8492

Published: 1/30/2020 Last updated: 8/4/2024 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

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 (1)

Product	Vendor	Version
n/a	n/a	1.46.12

References (32)