Detections
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CVE-2021-32837
high
Description
mechanize, a library for automatically interacting with HTTP web servers, contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) prior to version 0.4.6. If a web server responds in a malicious way, then mechanize could crash. Version 0.4.6 has a patch for the issue.
References
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00022.html
https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize/releases/tag/v0.4.6
https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize/commit/dd05334448e9f39814bab044d2eaa5ef69b410d6