PT-2023-12176
CVE-2021-32837
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Published
2022-04-05
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Updated
2025-12-22
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CVSS 4.0
8.7
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
mechanize versions prior to 0.4.6
Description
The mechanize library, used for automatically interacting with HTTP web servers, contains a regular expression vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS). If a web server responds maliciously, mechanize could crash.
Recommendations
For versions prior to 0.4.6, update to version 0.4.6 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting interactions with potentially malicious web servers until the patch is applied.
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