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CVE-2021-3733

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 4.67% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-03-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2021-3733
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
4.67%

Original NVD Description

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.