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SUSE: CVE-2021-33503: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/18/2021
Created
06/21/2021
Added
06/19/2021
Modified
10/26/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in urllib3 before 1.26.5. When provided with a URL containing many @ characters in the authority component, the authority regular expression exhibits catastrophic backtracking, causing a denial of service if a URL were passed as a parameter or redirected to via an HTTP redirect.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-python-urllib3
  • suse-upgrade-python3-urllib3

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