Resource Exhaustion Affecting platform-python package, versions <0:3.6.8-31.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PLATFORMPYTHON-3839417
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Mar 2020

Introduced: 2 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-8492  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 platform-python to version 0:3.6.8-31.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:4433.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream platform-python package and not the platform-python package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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.

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