Resource Exhaustion Affecting python3 package, versions <3.8.2-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.84% (82nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE311-PYTHON3-587753
- published 21 Jul 2020
- disclosed 30 Jan 2020
Introduced: 30 Jan 2020
CVE-2020-8492 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.11
python3
to version 3.8.2-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3
package and not the python3
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.11
relevant fixed versions and status.
Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1 allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks against a client because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200221-0001/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7WOKDEXLYW5UQ4S7PA7E37IITOC7C56J/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5NSAX4SC3V64PGZUPH7PRDLSON34Q5A/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APGWEMYZIY5VHLCSZ3HD67PA5Z2UQFGH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UESGYI5XDAHJBATEZN3MHNDUBDH47AS6/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-09
- https://bugs.python.org/issue39503
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18284
- https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/urllib-basic-auth-regex.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdb31a608dd6758c6093fd645aea3fbf022dd25b37109b6aaea5bc0b5@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfec113c733162b39633fd86a2d0f34bf42ac35f711b3ec1835c774da@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00003.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4333-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4333-2/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00024.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdb31a608dd6758c6093fd645aea3fbf022dd25b37109b6aaea5bc0b5%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfec113c733162b39633fd86a2d0f34bf42ac35f711b3ec1835c774da%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7WOKDEXLYW5UQ4S7PA7E37IITOC7C56J/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5NSAX4SC3V64PGZUPH7PRDLSON34Q5A/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APGWEMYZIY5VHLCSZ3HD67PA5Z2UQFGH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UESGYI5XDAHJBATEZN3MHNDUBDH47AS6/