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Medium· 5.3GHSA-cfj3-7x9c-4p3h CVE-2014-1829CWE-200Published May 17, 2022

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