bpo-43075: Fix ReDoS in urllib AbstractBasicAuthHandler (GH-24391)
Fix Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in
urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler. The ReDoS-vulnerable regex
has quadratic worst-case complexity and it allows cause a denial of
service when identifying crafted invalid RFCs. This ReDoS issue is on
the client side and needs remote attackers to control the HTTP server.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index e5febe6..8363905 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ class AbstractBasicAuthHandler:
# (single quotes are a violation of the RFC, but appear in the wild)
rx = re.compile('(?:^|,)' # start of the string or ','
'[ \t]*' # optional whitespaces
- '([^ \t]+)' # scheme like "Basic"
+ '([^ \t,]+)' # scheme like "Basic"
'[ \t]+' # mandatory whitespaces
# realm=xxx
# realm='xxx'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-01-31-05-28-14.bpo-43075.DoAXqO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-01-31-05-28-14.bpo-43075.DoAXqO.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c9f727
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-01-31-05-28-14.bpo-43075.DoAXqO.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in :class:`urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler`. The ReDoS-vulnerable regex has quadratic worst-case complexity and it allows cause a denial of service when identifying crafted invalid RFCs. This ReDoS issue is on the client side and needs remote attackers to control the HTTP server.