VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-32837

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability28.87%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-01-17
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

mechanize, a library for automatically interacting with HTTP web servers, contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) prior to version 0.4.6. If a web server responds in a malicious way, then mechanize could crash. Version 0.4.6 has a patch for the issue.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-1333

Primary references