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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 30, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

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.

Affected products

220

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

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