DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32837

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-32837
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JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32837
Upstream
Published
2023-01-17T22:15:10Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:15:03.296967Z
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

Debian:11 / python-mechanize

Package

Name
python-mechanize
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-mechanize?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:0.*

1:0.4.5-2
1:0.4.7-1
1:0.4.7-2
1:0.4.8-1
1:0.4.8-2
1:0.4.8+pypi-1
1:0.4.8+pypi-2
1:0.4.8+pypi-3
1:0.4.8+pypi-4
1:0.4.8+pypi-5
1:0.4.9+ds-1
1:0.4.9+ds-2
1:0.4.10+ds-1
1:0.4.10+ds-2
1:0.4.10+ds-3
1:0.4.10+ds-4
1:0.4.10+ds-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / python-mechanize

Package

Name
python-mechanize
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-mechanize?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:0.4.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / python-mechanize

Package

Name
python-mechanize
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-mechanize?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:0.4.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / python-mechanize

Package

Name
python-mechanize
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-mechanize?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:0.4.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}