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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-26137: Security patch for python-urllib3 (ALAS-2021-1668)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-26137: Security patch for python-urllib3 (ALAS-2021-1668)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/30/2020
Created
06/25/2021
Added
06/24/2021
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

urllib3 before 1.25.9 allows CRLF injection if the attacker controls the HTTP request method, as demonstrated by inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest(). NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2020-26116.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-urllib3

References

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