VYPR
Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 30, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-8492

CVE-2020-8492

Description

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.

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