CVE-2021-32837
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32837
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-32837.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-32837
- Aliases
- Related
- Published
- 2023-01-17T22:15:10Z
- Modified
- 2024-10-12T07:36:49.729311Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
mechanize, a library for automatically interacting with HTTP web servers, contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) prior to version 0.4.6. If a web server responds in a malicious way, then mechanize could crash. Version 0.4.6 has a patch for the issue.
- References
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- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-108-python-mechanize-mechanize/
- https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize/blob/3acb1836f3fd8edc5a758a417dd46b53832ae3b5/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py#L878-L879
- https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize/commit/dd05334448e9f39814bab044d2eaa5ef69b410d6
- https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize/releases/tag/v0.4.6
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00022.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-32837
Affected packages
Debian:11 / python-mechanize
Package
- Name
- python-mechanize
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/python-mechanize?arch=source
Affected ranges
- Type
- ECOSYSTEM
- Events
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Introduced0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Debian:12 / python-mechanize
Package
- Name
- python-mechanize
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/python-mechanize?arch=source
Debian:13 / python-mechanize
Package
- Name
- python-mechanize
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/python-mechanize?arch=source