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PYSEC-2023-25
Quick fix
PYSEC-2023-25 — mechanize: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
pip install --upgrade 'mechanize>=dd05334448e9f39814bab044d2eaa5ef69b410d6'Details
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.
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Affected packages
PyPI/mechanize
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: dd05334448e9f39814bab044d2eaa5ef69b410d6Fix
pip install --upgrade 'mechanize>=dd05334448e9f39814bab044d2eaa5ef69b410d6'References
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-108-python-mechanize-mechanize/[EVIDENCE]
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-108-python-mechanize-mechanize/[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize/commit/dd05334448e9f39814bab044d2eaa5ef69b410d6[FIX]
- https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize/blob/3acb1836f3fd8edc5a758a417dd46b53832ae3b5/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py#L878-L879[EVIDENCE]
- https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize/blob/3acb1836f3fd8edc5a758a417dd46b53832ae3b5/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py#L878-L879[WEB]
- https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize/releases/tag/v0.4.6[WEB]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g3pv-pj5f-3hfq[ADVISORY]