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.
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
github.com/advisories/GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg
github.com/urllib3/urllib3
github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/2d4a3fee6de2fa45eb82169361918f759269b4ec
github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/5b047b645f5f93900d5e2fc31230848c25eb1f5f#diff-52026d639119bf1e0364836b4e8a18bd9ed3c95c6ba39b26534a5057a65e35bbR65
github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6SCV7ZNAHS3E6PBFLJGENCDRDRWRZZ6W
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FMUGWEAUYGGHTPPXT6YBD53WYXQGVV73
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33503
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-36
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html