CVE-2021-33503
HIGH 8.7EPSS 3.3%
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 v4.0 GitHub
- 8.7 HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 5.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - EPSS
- 3.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 88th percentile
- Published
- 2021-06-29
- Updated
- 2024-08-03
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- OkiriGabriel/CVE-vul-docker0★ · 2025-07-07
Security advisories
- advisories/GHSA-q2q7-5pp4-w6pg
- urllib3/urllib3/commit/2d4a3fee6de2fa45eb82169361918f759269b4ec
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-36
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html