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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-3733): Python vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 16, 2021
Added
Sep 17, 2021
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

There's a flaw in urllib's AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. An attacker who controls a malicious HTTP server that an HTTP client (such as web browser) connects to, could trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) during an authentication request with a specially crafted payload that is sent by the server to the client. The greatest threat that this flaw poses is to application availability.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python3-5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python3-5-minimalubuntu-upgrade-libpython3-6-stdlibubuntu-upgrade-libpython3-7-stdlibubuntu-upgrade-libpython3-8-stdlibubuntu-upgrade-python3-6ubuntu-upgrade-python3-6-minimalubuntu-upgrade-python3-7ubuntu-upgrade-python3-7-minimalubuntu-upgrade-python3-8ubuntu-upgrade-python3-8-minimal

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