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Ubuntu: USN-5812-1 (CVE-2021-33503): urllib3 vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5812-1 (CVE-2021-33503): urllib3 vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/18/2021
Created
01/25/2023
Added
01/20/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-urllib3

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