GHSA-g3pv-pj5f-3hfq, CVE-2021-32837
pypi/mechanize
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
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.
All versions before 0.4.6
Upgrade to version 0.4.6 or above.
2023-01-23
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