Urllib3 vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product71 versions
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Urllib3 is made by Python. We track 12 published vulnerabilities in it, across 71 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Urllib3, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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None of Urllib3's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Urllib3 flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 4.5%

    urllib3 before version 1.23 does not remove the Authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect (i.e., a redirect that differs in host, port, or scheme).

    CVSS9.8Published11 Dec 2018
  2. 3.4%

    The _encode_invalid_chars function in util/url.py in the urllib3 library 1.25.2 through 1.25.7 for Python allows a denial of service (CPU consumption) because of an inefficient algorithm.

    CVSS7.5Published6 Mar 2020
  3. 3.3%

    An issue was discovered in urllib3 before 1.26.5.

    CVSS7.5Published29 Jun 2021
  4. 2.9%

    The urllib3 library before 1.24.2 for Python mishandles certain cases where the desired set of CA certificates is different from the OS store of CA certificates, which results in SSL connections succeeding in...

    CVSS7.5Published18 Apr 2019
  5. 2.3%

    urllib3 before 1.25.9 allows CRLF injection if the attacker controls the HTTP request method, as demonstrated by inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest().

    CVSS6.5Published30 Sep 2020
  6. 2.2%

    The urllib3 library 1.26.x before 1.26.4 for Python omits SSL certificate validation in some cases involving HTTPS to HTTPS proxies.

    CVSS6.5Published15 Mar 2021
  7. 2.1%

    In the urllib3 library through 1.24.1 for Python, CRLF injection is possible if the attacker controls the request parameter.

    CVSS6.1Published15 Apr 2019
  8. 1.4%

    urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python.

    CVSS5.9Published4 Oct 2023
  9. 0.8%

    Versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the Python urllib3 library suffer from a vulnerability that can cause them, in certain configurations, to not correctly validate TLS certificates.

    CVSS3.7Published11 Jan 2017
  10. 0.6%

    urllib3 before 1.24.2 does not remove the authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect (i.e., a redirect that differs in host, port, or scheme).

    CVSS6.1Published15 Oct 2023
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We track 12 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Urllib3, across 71 versions.

None of Urllib3's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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