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.
{ "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.10.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "severity": "Medium" }