vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2020-8492: Moderate: python38:3.8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4641)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 30, 2020
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

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.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-python38-asn1cryptoalma-upgrade-python38-cffialma-upgrade-python38-chardetalma-upgrade-python38-cryptographyalma-upgrade-python38-cythonalma-upgrade-python38-idnaalma-upgrade-python38-markupsafealma-upgrade-python38-mod_wsgialma-upgrade-python38-psycopg2alma-upgrade-python38-psycopg2-docalma-upgrade-python38-psycopg2-testsalma-upgrade-python38-pycparseralma-upgrade-python38-pysocksalma-upgrade-python38-pytzalma-upgrade-python38-requestsalma-upgrade-python38-scipy
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