CVE-2021-33503
Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.5)—
An issue was discovered in urllib3 before 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 were passed as a parameter or redirected to via an HTTP redirect.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 3.27%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 88
- Fecha de la puntuación: 1/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (5)
CWE
- CWE-400
Referencias
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg
- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/2d4a3fee6de2fa45eb82169361918f759269b4ec
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6SCV7ZNAHS3E6PBFLJGENCDRDRWRZZ6W/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FMUGWEAUYGGHTPPXT6YBD53WYXQGVV73/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-36
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg
- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/2d4a3fee6de2fa45eb82169361918f759269b4ec
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6SCV7ZNAHS3E6PBFLJGENCDRDRWRZZ6W/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FMUGWEAUYGGHTPPXT6YBD53WYXQGVV73/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-36
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
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