CVE-2021-33503
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
13 explicit affected versions
10 explicit affected versions
30 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
### Impact 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. ### Patches The issue has been fixed in urllib3 v1.26.5. ### References - [CVE-2021-33503](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-33503) - [JVNVU#92413403 (English)](https://jvn.jp/en/vu/JVNVU92413403/) - [JVNVU#92413403 (Japanese)](https://jvn.jp/vu/JVNVU92413403/) - [urllib3 v1.26.5](https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/releases/tag/1.26.5) ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Ask in our [community Discord](https://discord.gg/urllib3) * Email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
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.
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/urllib3/PYSEC-2021-108.yaml
- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3
- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/2d4a3fee6de2fa45eb82169361918f759269b4ec
- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/5b047b645f5f93900d5e2fc31230848c25eb1f5f#diff-52026d639119bf1e0364836b4e8a18bd9ed3c95c6ba39b26534a5057a65e35bbR65
- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6SCV7ZNAHS3E6PBFLJGENCDRDRWRZZ6W
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FMUGWEAUYGGHTPPXT6YBD53WYXQGVV73
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33503
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-36
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6SCV7ZNAHS3E6PBFLJGENCDRDRWRZZ6W/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FMUGWEAUYGGHTPPXT6YBD53WYXQGVV73/