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bpo-39503: CVE-2020-8492: Fix AbstractBasicAuthHandler (GH-18284)
authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Thu, 2 Apr 2020 00:52:20 +0000 (02:52 +0200)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2020 00:52:20 +0000 (02:52 +0200)
commit0b297d4ff1c0e4480ad33acae793fbaf4bf015b4
tree7f39cf8cddaf63245f29e784ee570586d902afed
parentd57cf557366584539f400db523b555296487e8f5
bpo-39503: CVE-2020-8492: Fix AbstractBasicAuthHandler (GH-18284)

The AbstractBasicAuthHandler class of the urllib.request module uses
an inefficient regular expression which can be exploited by an
attacker to cause a denial of service. Fix the regex to prevent the
catastrophic backtracking. Vulnerability reported by Ben Caller
and Matt Schwager.

AbstractBasicAuthHandler of urllib.request now parses all
WWW-Authenticate HTTP headers and accepts multiple challenges per
header: use the realm of the first Basic challenge.

Co-Authored-By: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
Lib/urllib/request.py
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