CVE-2021-3733

MEDIUMNVD 6.56.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-03-11. NVD baseline CVSS 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 4.8%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

There's a flaw in urllib's AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. An attacker who controls a malicious HTTP server that an HTTP client (such as web browser) connects to, could trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) during an authentication request with a specially crafted payload that is sent by the server to the client. The greatest threat that this flaw poses is to application availability.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
46
EG Risk 46/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity65% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation4.8% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
4.8%
EPSS %ILE
91st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (6.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
4.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

March 10, 2022

Last Modified

October 14, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 8, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat, github_commit, github_pr.
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

1995234 – (CVE-2021-3733) CVE-2021-3733 python: urllib: Regular expression DoS in AbstractBasicAuthHandler

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1995234
Web page

Issue 43075: CVE-2021-3733: ReDoS in urllib.request - Python tracker

https://bugs.python.org/issue43075
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 3477-1] python3.7 security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00039.html
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 3432-1] python2.7 security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00024.html
GitHub pull request

bpo-43075: Fix ReDoS in request

Fix merged in python/cpython PR #24391 on 2021-04-07 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24391
GitHub commit

commit 7215d1ae2552 (python/cpython)

Fix landed in python/cpython commit 7215d1ae2552 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7215d1ae25525c92b026166f9d5cac85fb

Patch Availability(10)

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(9 across 6 ecosystems)
Debian:11(3)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
pypy3—
  • every version up to 7.3.5+dfsg-2: fixed in 7.3.5+dfsg-2
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python2.72.7.18-10 ... 2.7.18-9 (10 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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python3.93.9.2-1, 3.9.2-1+deb11u1
  • every version up to 3.9.2-1+deb11u2: fixed in 3.9.2-1+deb11u2
—
Debian:10(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
python2.72.7.16-2, 2.7.16-2+deb10u1
  • every version up to 2.7.16-2+deb10u2: fixed in 2.7.16-2+deb10u2
—
python3.73.7.3-2, 3.7.3-2+deb10u1, 3.7.3-2+deb10u2, 3.7.3-2+deb10u3, 3.7.3-2+deb10u4
  • every version up to 3.7.3-2+deb10u5: fixed in 3.7.3-2+deb10u5
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
pypy3—
  • every version up to 7.3.5+dfsg-2: fixed in 7.3.5+dfsg-2
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
pypy3—
  • every version up to 7.3.5+dfsg-2: fixed in 7.3.5+dfsg-2
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
pypy3—
  • every version up to 7.3.5+dfsg-2: fixed in 7.3.5+dfsg-2
—
Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
python3.53.5.3-1, 3.5.3-1+deb9u1, 3.5.3-1+deb9u2, 3.5.3-1+deb9u3, 3.5.3-1+deb9u4
  • every version up to 3.5.3-1+deb9u5: fixed in 3.5.3-1+deb9u5
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(4)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 42× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 96 of 209 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 4 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 113 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  25. 2026-10-08 21:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wj55-vqcq-gxcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2021-3733?
CVE-2021-3733 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 10, 2022. There's a flaw in urllib's AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. An attacker who controls a malicious HTTP server that an HTTP client (such as web browser) connects to, could trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) during an authentication request with a specially crafted payload that is…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2021-3733 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-3733 was published on March 10, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 14, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-3733 actively exploited?
CVE-2021-3733 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (91st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-3733?
CVE-2021-3733 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2021-3733?
A fix for CVE-2021-3733 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2021-3733 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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