Name: CVE-2021-32837: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2023-01-17T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2021-32837, CWE-1333, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.28872

mechanize, a library for automatically interacting with HTTP web servers, contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) prior to version 0.4.6. If a web server responds in a malicious way, then mechanize could crash. Version 0.4.6 has a patch for the issue.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade python-mechanize	Jun 22, 2023	Jan 17, 2023
Suse	—	Upgrade python3-mechanize	Jan 24, 2023	Jan 17, 2023

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CVSS Details

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