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.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2020-01-30T00:00:00
Updated: 2023-05-24T00:00:00
Reserved: 2020-01-30T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-8492
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2020-01-30T19:15:12.103
Modified: 2023-11-07T03:26:36.510
Link: CVE-2020-8492
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