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CVE-2021-3733

There's a flaw in urllib's AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. An attacker who controls a malicious HTTP server that an HTTP

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 0.00629
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Sigma rules8 YARA rules0

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1

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producthighPython Reverse Shell Execution Via PTY And Socket Modules
producthighInline Python Execution - Spawn Shell Via OS System Library
producthighPython One-Liners with Base64 Decoding - Linux
producthighPython Function Execution Security Warning Disabled In Excel
producthighPython One-Liners with Base64 Decoding
producthighPython Spawning Pretty TTY on Windows

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6.5
MEDIUM · CVSS v3.1 · secalert@redhat.com
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Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
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None Required
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Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD10 Mar 2022 · 05:42 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:11202-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:11284-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:11286-1
siemens-csafSSA-398330
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