When provided with a URL containing many @
characters in the authority component the authority regular expression exhibits catastrophic backtracking causing a denial of service if a URL were passed as a parameter or redirected to via an HTTP redirect.
The issue has been fixed in urllib3 v1.26.5.
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{ "nvd_published_at": "2021-06-29T11:15:00Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-400" ], "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2021-05-28T22:09:12Z" }