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  1. High, CVSS 8.7PyPIAmendedPublished

    mechanize Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

    CVE-2021-32837 · GHSA-g3pv-pj5f-3hfq

    Affected
    • PyPI mechanize < 0.4.6
    Fixed in
    0.4.6· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    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.

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.4.6 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:osv.dev (1)github.com (2)Source checked Evidence →