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@miss-islington miss-islington commented Apr 2, 2020

The AbstractBasicAuthHandler class of the urllib.request module uses
an inefficient regular expression which can be exploited by an
attacker to cause a denial of service. Fix the regex to prevent the
catastrophic backtracking. Vulnerability reported by Ben Caller
and Matt Schwager.

AbstractBasicAuthHandler of urllib.request now parses all
WWW-Authenticate HTTP headers and accepts multiple challenges per
header: use the realm of the first Basic challenge.

Co-Authored-By: Serhiy Storchaka [email protected]
(cherry picked from commit 0b297d4)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner [email protected]

https://bugs.python.org/issue39503

The AbstractBasicAuthHandler class of the urllib.request module uses
an inefficient regular expression which can be exploited by an
attacker to cause a denial of service. Fix the regex to prevent the
catastrophic backtracking. Vulnerability reported by Ben Caller
and Matt Schwager.

AbstractBasicAuthHandler of urllib.request now parses all
WWW-Authenticate HTTP headers and accepts multiple challenges per
header: use the realm of the first Basic challenge.

Co-Authored-By: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 0b297d4)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>
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@vstinner: Status check is done, and it's a failure ❌ .

@vstinner vstinner closed this Apr 2, 2020
@miss-islington miss-islington deleted the backport-0b297d4-3.7 branch April 2, 2020 01:38
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