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GHSA-g3pv-pj5f-3hfq: mechanize Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability
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.
mechanize Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability
High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 18, 2023 • Updated Jan 20, 2023
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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.