{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "security-advisories@github.com", "ID": "CVE-2021-21240", "STATE": "PUBLIC", "TITLE": "Regular Expression Denial of Service in httplib2" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "httplib2", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "< 0.19.0" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "httplib2" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. In httplib2 before version 0.19.0, a malicious server which responds with long series of \"\\xa0\" characters in the \"www-authenticate\" header may cause Denial of Service (CPU burn while parsing header) of the httplib2 client accessing said server. This is fixed in version 0.19.0 which contains a new implementation of auth headers parsing using the pyparsing library." } ] }, "impact": { "cvss": { "attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "NETWORK", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "baseScore": 7.5, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "NONE", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "version": "3.1" } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-93xj-8mrv-444m", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-93xj-8mrv-444m" }, { "name": "https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/182", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/182" }, { "name": "https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/commit/bd9ee252c8f099608019709e22c0d705e98d26bc", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/commit/bd9ee252c8f099608019709e22c0d705e98d26bc" }, { "name": "https://pypi.org/project/httplib2", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://pypi.org/project/httplib2" } ] }, "source": { "advisory": "GHSA-93xj-8mrv-444m", "discovery": "UNKNOWN" } }