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>
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on 4/2/2020, 12:52:20 AM