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1 vulnerability found for by python-mechanize
CVE-2021-32837 (GCVE-0-2021-32837)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-17 00:00
Modified
2025-12-22 01:32
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
mechanize, a library for automatically interacting with HTTP web servers, contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) prior to version 0.4.6. If a web server responds in a malicious way, then mechanize could crash. Version 0.4.6 has a patch for the issue.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-mechanize | mechanize |
Version: 0.4.6 < 0.4.6 |
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