CVE-2021-32837

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32837
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-32837.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-32837
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-01-17T22:15:10.533Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:59:51.129604006Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
18de4ce0265a025efc0f851f8956b40f2d9ed3ba
Fixed
dd05334448e9f39814bab044d2eaa5ef69b410d6
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mechanize_project:mechanize:*:*:*:*:*:python:*:*",
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.4.6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.3.0
v0.3.1
v0.3.2
v0.3.3
v0.3.4
v0.3.5
v0.3.6
v0.3.7
v0.4.0
v0.4.1
v0.4.2
v0.4.3
v0.4.4
v0.4.5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-32837.json"