Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python39-chardet (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published5 Jan 2023
- disclosed30 Jan 2020
Introduced: 30 Jan 2020
CVE-2020-8492 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Rocky-Linux security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Rocky-Linux:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python39-chardet package and not the python39-chardet package as distributed by Rocky-Linux.
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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8492
- https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-8492.json
- 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.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/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00003.html
- https://bugs.python.org/issue39503
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18284
- 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.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00024.html
- 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/
- https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/urllib-basic-auth-regex.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-09
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200221-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4333-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4333-2/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html