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Denial of Service (DoS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package requests  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-REQUESTS-40480
  • published7 Apr 2012
  • disclosed7 Apr 2012
  • creditUnknown
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Introduced: 7 Apr 2012

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

requests is a Python HTTP for Humans.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. When sending a digest with an incorrect password, it will retry the request for infinity. An attacker can send many of these requests, causing a denial of service.

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