vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-8492: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 2020-01-30 | 2021-01-04 | 2024-10-02 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2020-01-30
Added
2021-01-04
Modified
2024-10-02
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-python3
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