CVE-2021-33503 (GCVE-0-2021-33503)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-29 10:55 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:50
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2316 records in the last 180 days details
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