GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pgHighCVSS 7.5

Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser when passed URL containing many @ characters

Published
June 1, 2021
Last Modified
June 9, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

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.

Patches

The issue has been fixed in urllib3 v1.26.5.

References

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🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/urllib3:>= 1.25.4, < 1.26.5

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