CVE-2020-8492 log

Source
Severity Low
Remote Yes
Type Denial of service
Description
Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1 allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks against a client because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking.
Group Package Affected Fixed Severity Status Ticket
AVG-1597 python2 2.7.18-2 2.7.18-3 High Fixed FS#68063
Date Advisory Group Package Severity Type
25 Mar 2021 ASA-202103-27 AVG-1597 python2 High multiple issues
References
https://bugs.python.org/issue39503
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18284
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0b297d4ff1c0e4480ad33acae793fbaf4bf015b4