Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2026-08-24 09:36
Modified
2026-08-24 10:01
Summary
`HTTPPasswordMgr` can send saved HTTPS credentials via HTTP because of incorrect scheme matching
Details

The HTTPPasswordMgr class in the urllib.request module, along with its subclasses HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm and HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth, did not take the URL scheme into account when matching stored credentials against a requested URL. Credentials added for an https:// URL were also used for requests to the same host over http://, so an attacker able to redirect or downgrade a client to plain HTTP (for example, via an HTTPS-to-HTTP redirect or an on-path position) could capture credentials in cleartext. Credentials added for http:// URLs could likewise be sent over https://.

Credential matching is now scoped by URL scheme. Credentials registered with a URL that includes a scheme are only used for requests with the same scheme. Credentials registered with a bare authority (such as example.com or example.com:8080) continue to match any scheme, preserving compatibility with existing code, including proxy authentication.

Users who cannot upgrade immediately can mitigate by ensuring that applications never make plain http:// requests to hosts for which credentials are registered, for example by not following redirects to http:// URLs.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "libpython",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/libpython"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-15806"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "The HTTPPasswordMgr class in the urllib.request module, along with its subclasses HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm and HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth, did not take the URL scheme into account when matching stored credentials against a requested URL. Credentials added for an https:// URL were also used for requests to the same host over http://, so an attacker able to redirect or downgrade a client to plain HTTP (for example, via an HTTPS-to-HTTP redirect or an on-path position) could capture credentials in cleartext. Credentials added for http:// URLs could likewise be sent over https://.\n\nCredential matching is now scoped by URL scheme. Credentials registered with a URL that includes a scheme are only used for requests with the same scheme. Credentials registered with a bare authority (such as example.com or example.com:8080) continue to match any scheme, preserving compatibility with existing code, including proxy authentication.\n\nUsers who cannot upgrade immediately can mitigate by ensuring that applications never make plain http:// requests to hosts for which credentials are registered, for example by not following redirects to http:// URLs.",
  "id": "BIT-libpython-2026-15806",
  "modified": "2026-08-24T10:01:09.721Z",
  "published": "2026-08-24T09:36:56.153Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/18/3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/641be42bb07921ba0f8bffe228b1dc706b092ef6"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/851cf9a7142ecbdd39f831055533f58284ad2bcc"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a0d023fbd23773e24b35d8368789470e22cda5d8"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a2773a34183b7d94a243bb98fd658926cc5348ce"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a7bb524fef61f77ede01f660ffbd591e1d5837ce"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/155694"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/155696"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/3OKPE5S75KDNA7FY7AI3PL2MXM2X5RB3/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15806"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "`HTTPPasswordMgr` can send saved HTTPS credentials via HTTP because of incorrect scheme matching"
}



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