Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Requests
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Affected versions
0 → fixed in 2.3.0
Details
Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected request.
The fix
No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.
References
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1829
- WEBhttps://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/1885
- WEBhttps://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885
- WEBhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733108
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cfj3-7x9c-4p3h
- PACKAGEhttps://github.com/psf/requests
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/requests/PYSEC-2014-13.yaml
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20150523055216/http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/advisory/MDVSA-2015:133/?name=MDVSA-2015:133
- WEBhttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0409.html
- WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3146
- WEBhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:133
- WEBhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2382-1