Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High RHSA-2021:2116 2 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1.6 (python-httplib2) security update

Published Sep 18, 2024 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · OpenStack 16 openstack:16.1::el8 python-httplib2 0:0.13.1-2.el8ost
Red Hat · OpenStack 16 openstack:16.1::el8 python3-httplib2 0:0.13.1-2.el8ost

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2021-21240

    Regular Expression Denial of Service in httplib2

    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)…

    httplib2 httplib2 python-httplib2 httplib2 Debian Ubuntu Alpine PyPI
  • Medium 6.8
    CVE-2020-11078

    CRLF injection in httplib2

    In httplib2 before version 0.18.0, an attacker controlling unescaped part of uri for `httplib2.Http.request()` could change request headers and body, send additional hidden requests to same server. This vulnerability impacts software that uses httplib2 with u…

    httplib2 httplib2 httplib2 python-httplib2 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux PyPI

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1845937
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1926885
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2021/rhsa-2021_2116.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11078
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11078
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11078
  • article
    https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-gg84-qgv9-w4pq
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21240
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21240
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21240
  • article
    https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-93xj-8mrv-444m