vulnerability

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-8492: python3 security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 30, 2020
Added
Mar 24, 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_sp8-upgrade-python3huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3-develhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3-libshuawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3-test
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