vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2020-8492)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 30, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

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

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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