Impact
When provided with a URL containing many @ characters in the authority component the authority regular expression exhibits catastrophic backtracking causing a denial of service if a URL were passed as a parameter or redirected to via an HTTP redirect.
Patches
The issue has been fixed in urllib3 v1.26.5.
References
- CVE-2021-33503 - JVNVU#92413403 (English) - JVNVU#92413403 (Japanese) - urllib3 v1.26.5
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