Security Advisory

CVE-2021-32837

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-01-17 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-12-22 01:32:19
Assigner GitHub_M
CVSS score 7.5
State PUBLISHED

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.