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CVE-2020-7212: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in urllib3

April 30, 2021 (updated November 18, 2024)

The _encode_invalid_chars function in util/url.py in the urllib3 library 1.25.2 through 1.25.7 for Python allows a denial of service (CPU consumption) because of an inefficient algorithm. The percent_encodings array contains all matches of percent encodings. It is not deduplicated. For a URL of length N, the size of percent_encodings may be up to O(N). The next step (normalize existing percent-encoded bytes) also takes up to O(N) for each step, so the total time is O(N^2). If percent_encodings were deduplicated, the time to compute _encode_invalid_chars would be O(kN), where k is at most 484 ((10+6*2)^2).

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-hmv2-79q8-fv6g
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/urllib3/PYSEC-2020-149.yaml
  • github.com/urllib3/urllib3
  • github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/master/CHANGES.rst
  • github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/a74c9cfbaed9f811e7563cfc3dce894928e0221a
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7212
  • pypi.org/project/urllib3/1.25.8

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.25.2 before 1.25.8

Fixed versions

  • 1.25.8

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.25.8 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source file

pypi/urllib3/CVE-2020-7212.yml

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