There's a flaw in urllib's AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. An attacker who controls a malicious HTTP server that an HTTP client (such as web browser) connects to, could trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) during an authentication request with a specially crafted payload that is sent by the server to the client. The greatest threat that this flaw poses is to application availability.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2022-03-07T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-14T09:49:49.275Z
Reserved: 2021-08-23T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2021-3733
Updated: 2025-11-03T21:45:06.299Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2022-03-10T17:42:59.623
Modified: 2026-10-14T10:17:47.417
Link: CVE-2021-3733