Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python38-debug  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PYTHON38DEBUG-1453359
  • 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)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python38-debug package and not the python38-debug package as distributed by RHEL.

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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