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mechanize@0.3.7 vulnerabilities

Stateful, programmatic web browsing

  • latest version

    0.4.10

  • latest non vulnerable version

    0.4.10

  • first published

    16 years ago

  • latest version published

    8 months ago

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    Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

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    Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expression in the compile method used in the AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible when parsing a malformed auth header.

    How to fix Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)?

    Upgrade mechanize to version 0.4.6 or higher.

    [,0.4.6)
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