Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-33503  

A security issue has been found in python-urllib3 before version 1.26.5. 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 was passed as a parameter or redirected to via an HTTP redirect.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

A security issue has been found in python-urllib3 before version 1.26.5. 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 was passed as a parameter or redirected to via an HTTP redirect.

AVG-2038 python-urllib3 1.26.4-2 1.26.5-1 Medium Fixed

https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg
https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/2d4a3fee6de2fa45eb82169361918f759269b4ec