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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-8492: python security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 30, 2020
Added
Apr 16, 2020
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

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.

Solutions

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-pythonhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-python-develhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-python-libshuawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-tkinter
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