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Revision 69cdeeb93e0830004a495ed854022425b93b3f3e authored by Victor Stinner on 03 April 2020, 01:15:56 UTC, committed by GitHub on 03 April 2020, 01:15:56 UTC
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>
(cherry picked from commit 0b297d4ff1c0e4480ad33acae793fbaf4bf015b4)
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Tip revision: 69cdeeb93e0830004a495ed854022425b93b3f3e authored by Victor Stinner on 03 April 2020, 01:15:56 UTC
bpo-39503: CVE-2020-8492: Fix AbstractBasicAuthHandler (GH-18284) (GH-19304)
Tip revision: 69cdeeb
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