Vulnerability Details CVE-2021-21240
httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. In httplib2 before version 0.19.0, a malicious server which responds with long series of "\xa0" characters in the "www-authenticate" header may cause Denial of Service (CPU burn while parsing header) of the httplib2 client accessing said server. This is fixed in version 0.19.0 which contains a new implementation of auth headers parsing using the pyparsing library.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.045
EPSS Ranking 88.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
Products affected by CVE-2021-21240
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.10.1
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.10.2
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.10.3
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.11.1
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.11.2
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.11.3
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.12.0
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.12.1
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.12.3
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.13.0
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.13.1
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.14.0
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.15.0
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.16.0
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.17.0
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.17.1
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.17.2
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.17.3
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.17.4
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.18.0
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.18.1
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.9
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:httplib2_project:httplib2:0.9.2