USN-5199-1: Python vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Description

It was discovered that the urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler class in Python contains regex with a quadratic worst-case time complexity. Specially crafted traffic from a malicious HTTP server could cause a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) condition for a client. (CVE-2021-3733) It was discovered that the Python urllib http client could enter into an infinite loop when incorrectly handling certain server responses (100 Continue response). Specially crafted traffic from a malicious HTTP server could cause a denial of service (DoS) condition for a client. (CVE-2021-3737)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-3733, CVE-2021-3737.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• Bionic Stemcells
  • 1.x versions prior to 1.51
  • All other stemcells not listed.
• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.271.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 18.0.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

• Bionic Stemcells
  • Upgrade 1.x versions to 1.51 or greater
  • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
• cflinuxfs3
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.271.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 18.0.0 or greater

History

2022-03-08: Initial vulnerability report published.