CVE-2024-28849
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-14 17:07
Modified
2024-08-02 19:46
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that automatically follows redirects. In affected versions follow-redirects only clears authorization header during cross-domain redirect, but keep the proxy-authentication header which contains credentials too. This vulnerability may lead to credentials leak, but has been addressed in version 1.15.6. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#authentication-entries
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649b
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885
security-advisories@github.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/2390009
security-advisories@github.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOIF4EPQUCKDBEVTGRQDZ3CGTYQHPO7Z/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#authentication-entries
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649b
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://hackerone.com/reports/2390009
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOIF4EPQUCKDBEVTGRQDZ3CGTYQHPO7Z/
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