vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-32837: python-mechanize -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 17, 2023
Added
Jun 22, 2023
Modified
May 27, 2025

Description

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.

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-python-mechanizeno-fix-debian-deb-package
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